Re: free iso editor

[Angus Scott-Fleming]

On 23 Mar 2009 at 19:35, Miguel Gonzalez  wrote:

>  I have a bootable CD ISO. I want to add a text file to it. I've been
> googling around and I couldn't find any free tool that can do the job. Any
> way to do this? 

Several shareware (try-before-you-buy) programs with "Edit" capabilities are 
listed here:

List of ISO image software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_image_software



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Re: free iso editor

[Ben Scott]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Joseph L. Casale
 wrote:
>>I don't know if there are utilities which will edit an ISO image "in
>>place".  From what little I know of the ISO data structures, that
>>would be difficult.
>
> No, it's a filesystem, iso9660. Do it on nix easy :)

  Do tell.  I'm not aware of any ISO-9660 filesystem driver for any
Unix which includes write support.

  The ISO-9660 filesystem was not designed to support editing, and
some of the data structures assume knowledge of the entire filesystem
layout in advance.  While I don't doubt that it would be *possible* to
implement such write support, it seems unlikely anyone would bother.
The only place ISO-9660 gets used is on optical media which don't
behave like a random access writable block device.

  Note that "mkisofs" is not a filesystem driver, not does it edit the
image in place.  It can create new sessions based on old sessions, but
that's not editing, it's a list of changes.

> In windows use poweriso or winiso etc etc.

  Never used 'em; I'll take your word for it.  :)

-- Ben

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RE: free iso editor

[Ralph Smith]

Also not free but I've used UltraISO for years to do this.  I searched
for a free utility and never found one.  I use CDBurnerXP - never
thought to use it like that - good tip.

-Original Message-
From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 9:00 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: free iso editor

>I don't know if there are utilities which will edit an ISO image "in
>place".  From what little I know of the ISO data structures, that
>would be difficult.

No, it's a filesystem, iso9660. Do it on nix easy :)
In windows use poweriso or winiso etc etc.

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RE: free iso editor

[Joseph L. Casale]

>I don't know if there are utilities which will edit an ISO image "in
>place".  From what little I know of the ISO data structures, that
>would be difficult.

No, it's a filesystem, iso9660. Do it on nix easy :)
In windows use poweriso or winiso etc etc.

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Re: Can not open PST files

[Kurt Buff]

Reboot your file server.

Seriously.

Then get your PST files off the network.

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Can not open PST files

[Kevan Dickinson]

 

Since Friday afternoon I have been having some people report that they
can not open their PST files.

All PST files are stored in users home drives on the Network.  

When trying to open the file from within Outlook they are told that they
do not have permission to open the file. However they have full read and
write access to the file. I reapplied permissions just in case.  If I
copy the PST locally then the file can be opened.

 

I know that Microsoft does not support PST's on a Network drive but we
have worked this way for many years and I know that lots of other people
do as well. 

 

Anyone any idea what may be happening here? It's affecting about 10% of
our users at the moment and as I said earlier started happening on
Friday afternoon.  The clients are running a mixture of Office 2003 and
Office 2007.  We use Exchange server 2003.

 

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

 

Kevan Dickinson

Network Manager

NSF-CMI

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Hanborough Business Park, Long Hanborough,

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Re: free iso editor

[Ben Scott]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Miguel Gonzalez
 wrote:
>  I have a bootable CD ISO. I want to add a text file to it. I've been 
> googling around
> and I couldn't find any free tool that can do the job. Any way to do this?

  Everybody's been plugging their favorite free mastering/burning
software, so mine is: CDBurnerXP.

  You can use 7-Zip (also free, and Free, too) to extract the contents
of an ISO image.  It exposes the boot disk image in a "[BOOT]" virtual
folder.

  So:

1. Extract regular files and boot disk image (each to a different directory)
2. Modify extracted regular files
3. Remaster using CDBurnerXP, pointing at regular files and boot image
4. Burn to disc, or write to .ISO file

  I don't know if there are utilities which will edit an ISO image "in
place".  From what little I know of the ISO data structures, that
would be difficult.

-- Ben

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Re: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

[Ben Scott]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Paul Everett
 wrote:
> Ok, I've been messing with the svchost.exe file all day and now realize
> a key is a key, not an exe file.
> Where would I find this svchost key?

  I believe this refers to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SvcHost

  The SVCHOST.EXE program looks there to figure out which services to
start, and which ones to run in which processes.

  I assume the references to making that key read-only are a stop-gap
defense against malware.  If malware assumes it can write to that key,
and you change the permissions on the key such that nobody (not even
admins) can make changes to the key, the malware will be unable to set
itself up as a SVCHOST service.

  Of course, this assumes malware authors don't start checking to see
if they have permission, and granting themselves permission if they
don't.  (Admins can set permission on anything.)  Hence "stop-gap".

  The real solution is to not run as admin.  You need admin rights to
make changes to that key, and you also need admin rights to set the
permissions.  I just went to that registry key using my regular user
account, and I can't edit or delete a darn thing.  Security.  It
works, when you use it.  :)

-- Ben

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RE: How many domain admins do you have?

[Free, Bob]

We don't call them engineers but we require separate accounts for all
administrative work so what we would refer to as  "windows
administrators" are anyone with an adminID, server admins, desktop
group, help desk, dba's etc. In the production forest 1% of those
adminID's are DA's.

 

From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 8:47 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: How many domain admins do you have?

 

General poll: How many Systems Engineers do you guys have and how many
of them are domain administrators? If you don't want to divulge
specifics then percentages would work. For us we're at about 13 DA's /
13 SE's, although I think we should be closer to say, 4/13.

 

Comments?

David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER 
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764

 

 

 

 

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Re: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

[Ben Scott]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:31 AM, James Rankin  wrote:
> I think the force switch for reg.exe is /f

  You think correctly.  :)  From "REG ADD /?", I see:

/f   Force overwriting the existing registry entry without prompt

  So, to modify my previous example:

REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf" /ve /t REG_SZ /d
"@SYS:DoesNotExist" /f

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RE: Certificate migration

[Ken Schaefer]

What's the certificate being used for (each certificate has OIDs, which dictate 
what it can be used for)?

If it's something like server authentication, then as long as you have an 
export inc the private key, then you can import that onto any other arbitrary 
machine without issues (at least as far as Windows is concerned - I can't speak 
for any other weird things that 3rd party apps might not like, but stuff like 
IIS or SQL Server or Exchange etc won't have problems)

Cheers
Ken


From: Jim Dandy [jda...@asmail.ucdavis.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, 24 March 2009 2:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Certificate migration

If I get a certificate and my server crashes, can a rebuild a machine
with the same name and put the same certificate back on it or is there
something special about that certificate that makes it so it will only
work on that one installation?  Thanks for your help.

Curt Finley
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RE: Donating Servers?

[Erik Goldoff]

yes, it said "beefy" but also said circa "2001" ... so a quad processor with
maybe Xeon, 350mhz, 500mhz ???  2001 was EONS ago in computer years probably
4 generations or more of processor/motherboard design ago ...
 
I'd love it for my lab, don't get me wrong, but if the school system says
nothing older than 2 or 3 years, then 2001 does NOT qualify ...
 

Erik Goldoff


IT  Consultant

Systems, Networks, & Security 

 

  _  

From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 4:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Donating Servers?



Guys, did you read the original message?  He said the server was beefy.
Tells me that it is probably already running 2K3, or is at least capable of
it.  I understand that schools don't want ancient equipment, but this is
supposedly not the case here.  I used to work for a school district, I
completely understand what can/cannot be accepted.  And there was never a
statement saying it wasn't servicing his needs.  Maybe he's one of the lucky
ones that rotate equipment on a regular basis whether it needs it or not.

 

Joe Heaton

Employment Training Panel

 


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RE: Donating Servers?

[Sam Cayze]

Well, it's Dual Proc 600MHz.  But yeah, beefy for 2001.   



From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 4:50 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Donating Servers?



Beefy for the day? The Dell site tells me it takes Pentium II Xeon
processors unless I got the part number wrong. 500MHz is 500MHz, even if
there are four of them.

 

-- 
Mike Gill

 

From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 1:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Donating Servers?

 

Guys, did you read the original message?  He said the server was beefy.
Tells me that it is probably already running 2K3, or is at least capable
of it.  I understand that schools don't want ancient equipment, but this
is supposedly not the case here.  I used to work for a school district,
I completely understand what can/cannot be accepted.  And there was
never a statement saying it wasn't servicing his needs.  Maybe he's one
of the lucky ones that rotate equipment on a regular basis whether it
needs it or not.

 

Joe Heaton

Employment Training Panel 

 

 

 


 

 


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RE: free iso editor

[Joseph L. Casale]

Extract the bootable portion of code, then remaster. Use the win32 port of 
mkisofs if you're stuck on windows.

-Original Message-
From: Miguel Gonzalez [mailto:miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.es] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 1:36 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: free iso editor


Hi,

 I have a bootable CD ISO. I want to add a text file to it. I've been googling 
around and I couldn't find any free tool that can do the job. Any way to do 
this?

 Thanks,

 Miguel


  

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Re: How many domain admins do you have?

[Anatoly Podgoretsky]

One admin with 1 server and one workstation :-)

Anatoly Podgoretsky
http://www.podgoretsky.com


  - Original Message - 
  From: David Lum 
  To: NT System Admin Issues 
  Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 5:47 PM
  Subject: How many domain admins do you have?


  General poll: How many Systems Engineers do you guys have and how many of 
them are domain administrators? If you don't want to divulge specifics then 
percentages would work. For us we're at about 13 DA's / 13 SE's, although I 
think we should be closer to say, 4/13.

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RE: Donating Servers?

[Mike Gill]

Beefy for the day? The Dell site tells me it takes Pentium II Xeon
processors unless I got the part number wrong. 500MHz is 500MHz, even if
there are four of them.

 

-- 
Mike Gill

 

From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 1:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Donating Servers?

 

Guys, did you read the original message?  He said the server was beefy.
Tells me that it is probably already running 2K3, or is at least capable of
it.  I understand that schools don't want ancient equipment, but this is
supposedly not the case here.  I used to work for a school district, I
completely understand what can/cannot be accepted.  And there was never a
statement saying it wasn't servicing his needs.  Maybe he's one of the lucky
ones that rotate equipment on a regular basis whether it needs it or not.

 

Joe Heaton

Employment Training Panel 

 

 

 

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RE: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

[Paul Everett]

Ok, I've been messing with the svchost.exe file all day and now realize
a key is a key, not an exe file.
Where would I find this svchost key?  

-Original Message-
From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] 
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 1:04 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt


Regular users on fully patched XP and you are screwed. Been there done
that got the crappy T-Shirt. Not giving you a hard time but that is what
I am seeing. And have seen it and verified it at multiple other places.
I got lucky and saw it early and shut it down. I know some pretty big
(22K users) places that got totally over run by it.

At this point the only thing keeping us alive is the svchost key with
only read rights for everyone, including system.


> -Original Message-
> From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 12:59 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt
> 
> I do not know the answer to this, but based on what I've read about
the
> infection vector, as long as you don't run as admin I suspect you'll
be
> ok.
> At least on Vista and above.
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]
> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 11:52 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt
> 
> MS and the Anti-Virus vendors have really have let us down on this
one.
> 
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
> > Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 11:37 AM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Cc: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
> > Subject: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt
> > Importance: High
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > Seeing quite a bit of activity with Conflicker, and on April 1st
> > according to the following site. Its going to erupt with a lot of
> > malicious activity ( port 80 outbound, P2p, mass infection, so
> > definitely get your systems patched, and AV, Signatures, HIPS
> updated)
> > Just dealt with a bout of this worm today.
> >
> > http://mtc.sri.com/Conficker/addendumC/
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Z
> >
> > Edward Ziots
> > Network Engineer
> > Lifespan Organization
> > MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network +
> > ezi...@lifespan.org
> > Phone:401-639-3505
> 
> 
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RE: Donating Servers?

[Webster]

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] 
Subject: RE: Donating Servers?

 

110v

 

Send it to me.  I could use another 100 decibel heater in my lab. 

 

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From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] 
Subject: RE: Donating Servers?

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] 
Subject: RE: Donating Servers?

 

 :)

 

Thanks for all the input everyone, good ideas.

 

Yeah, the server is beefy, dual proc, Srv 2003, loaded with drives and Max
ram.  I had my developers using it not too long ago for dev, and they
thought it was fine for iis/sql.

 

Yep, we actually just have too many servers, and this sucker is huge!  I
want it out of my rack!

 

Sam (OP)

 

I'll take it for my Citrix lab that I use for writing articles.  Is that a
208V 6300?

 

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Re: Donating Servers?

[Lee Douglas]

If you can't find anyone else to give it to, I'll give it a good home. It
can become my first (real) server! . I currently have SBS 2003 running on
an old Gateway PC.



On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Sam Cayze  wrote:

>   :)
>
> Thanks for all the input everyone, good ideas.
>
> Yeah, the server is beefy, dual proc, Srv 2003, loaded with drives and Max
> ram.  I had my developers using it not too long ago for dev, and they
> thought it was fine for iis/sql.
>
> Yep, we actually just have too many servers, and this sucker is huge!  I
> want it out of my rack!
>
> Sam (OP)
>
>  --
> *From:* Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov]
> *Sent:* Monday, March 23, 2009 3:55 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Donating Servers?
>
>  Guys, did you read the original message?  He said the server was beefy.
> Tells me that it is probably already running 2K3, or is at least capable of
> it.  I understand that schools don’t want ancient equipment, but this is
> supposedly not the case here.  I used to work for a school district, I
> completely understand what can/cannot be accepted.  And there was never a
> statement saying it wasn’t servicing his needs.  Maybe he’s one of the lucky
> ones that rotate equipment on a regular basis whether it needs it or not.
>
>
>
> Joe Heaton
>
> Employment Training Panel
>
>
>
> *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, March 23, 2009 1:29 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: Donating Servers?
>
>
>
> Schools gotta get their business done, too.  If it's not servicing your
> needs, do you honestly think it will service a school's needs?  In many
> cases, there will be many, many more users than the typical small office
> server serves.  If the school district does offer A+ and computer classes I
> can see it being useful, but if they are doing work, not so much.
>
>
>
> I had to refuse a donation of a 4 year old server that the local branch
> office of the electric utility offered to us because it was too old.  At the
> time, all of my servers were just over a year old.
>
>
>
> Private schools may be more interested in a donation, too.  I know many of
> the private schools around here struggle for equipment.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Jon Harris  wrote:
>
> The rural county I live in told me the last time I had server or desktops
> to donate that unless they were less than a year old they were not
> interested.  Lucky for me the local community college loved the donation.
> They teach A+ and other computer classes so machines the students can take
> apart and put together and make work on any OS works for them.  If they
> don't work then they still enjoy them.
>
>
>
> Jon
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Erik Goldoff  wrote:
>
>  I've found that many of the school districts around here will not accept
> any computer donations more than 2 or 3 years old.  They are WAY more picky
> than they were 10 years ago !
>
>
>
> Erik Goldoff
> IT  Consultant
> Systems, Networks, & Security
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 4:09 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
>
> Subject: Re: Donating Servers?
>
> Technology requirements may be skyrocketing, but the usefulness of ancient
> hardware is dropping faster than a rock.
>
> In a lot of situations anything that's not capable of reasonably running XP
> or 2003 is useless.
>
> If you do give it to a school... make sure you give them the hard drives!
>
> Joe Heaton wrote:
> > Check with your local school district too, especially in these times.
> > The technology requirements for classrooms is skyrocketing, and
> > education budgets are getting slashed…
>
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>
> Phil Brutsche
> p...@optimumdata.com
>
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RE: Donating Servers?

[Sam Cayze]

110v



From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 4:25 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Donating Servers?



From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] 
Subject: RE: Donating Servers?

 

 :)

 

Thanks for all the input everyone, good ideas.

 

Yeah, the server is beefy, dual proc, Srv 2003, loaded with drives and
Max ram.  I had my developers using it not too long ago for dev, and
they thought it was fine for iis/sql.

 

Yep, we actually just have too many servers, and this sucker is huge!  I
want it out of my rack!

 

Sam (OP)

 

I'll take it for my Citrix lab that I use for writing articles.  Is that
a 208V 6300?

 

Webster


 

 


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Donating Servers?

[Webster]

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] 
Subject: RE: Donating Servers?

 

 :)

 

Thanks for all the input everyone, good ideas.

 

Yeah, the server is beefy, dual proc, Srv 2003, loaded with drives and Max
ram.  I had my developers using it not too long ago for dev, and they
thought it was fine for iis/sql.

 

Yep, we actually just have too many servers, and this sucker is huge!  I
want it out of my rack!

 

Sam (OP)

 

I'll take it for my Citrix lab that I use for writing articles.  Is that a
208V 6300?

 

Webster


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: free iso editor

[Scott Kaufman at HQ]

I use ImgBurn (http://www.imgburn.com/) for ISO authoring.  Love it!

 

You can't add a file to an ISO.  You can extract the files from the ISO,
add/delete/modify the files as needed & re-create the ISO with ImgBurn.

 

If it's bootable, then do more google searching on how to make a
bootable ISO.

 

 

Scott Kaufman

Lead Network Analyst

ITT ESI, Inc.

 

From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 4:50 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: free iso editor

 

http://www.google.com/search?q=free+iso+creator

 

I cant recall the names of any off-hand, but they exist.

--
ME2



On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:39 PM, N Parr 
wrote:

winrar can extract, don't know about add


-Original Message-
From: Miguel Gonzalez [mailto:miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.es]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 2:36 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: free iso editor


Hi,

 I have a bootable CD ISO. I want to add a text file to it. I've been
googling around and I couldn't find any free tool that can do the job.
Any way to do this?

 Thanks,

 Miguel




~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
  ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

 

 

 

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Win 2003 R2 quotas

[SMREKAR, JACK]

I usually go to my computer then right click on the drive letter, volume, then 
properties and then quota and do all the setting of limits and events there.

Jack Smrekar
Appleton Area School District
920-993-7062 Ext. 2123
A+  N+  Server +

[cid:image001.gif@01C9ABD1.A661C670]

From: riverside...@gmail.com [mailto:riverside...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 4:04 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Win 2003 R2 quotas

It sounds like you're trying to use the old Windows 2000 style Volume Quota. 
Not sure if that's supported in R2, but Microsoft introduced a new Quota 
system, Folder quota instead of Volume quota found in START > Administrative 
Tools > File Server Resource Manager.

It's much "slicker" and provides for templates.

Which are you using, the Volume Quota system or the File Server Resource 
Manager Quota Management?


On Mar 23, 2009 4:56pm, "SMREKAR, JACK"  wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> I have set quotas on a volume on a Win 2003 R2 server. I have
> set the options to hard limits and not to write anything after the limit. 
> What I
> now discovered is that none of the quotas are applying. When I go into the
> quota tab and click on view entries I get the list of students that are on the
> server and the size they have on that volume  but there are no limits for any
> of the columns.
>
>
>
>
>
> I have done Google search, MS TechNet search and none of them
> seem to have the issue I am having.
>
>
>
>
>
> I have not tried the command line option yet to either see or
> set the quotas. Would that help or not. we have had the quotas set on this
> server for the last 3 school years and each year we have moved and then
> formatted the drive and then reset the quota. This is the only year it has not
> worked.
>
>
>
>
>
> Jack Smrekar
>
>
> Appleton Area School District
>
>
> 920-993-7062 Ext. 2123
>
>
> A+  N+  Server +
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>





~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~<>

RE: Donating Servers?

[Sam Cayze]

 :)
 
Thanks for all the input everyone, good ideas.
 
Yeah, the server is beefy, dual proc, Srv 2003, loaded with drives and
Max ram.  I had my developers using it not too long ago for dev, and
they thought it was fine for iis/sql.
 
Yep, we actually just have too many servers, and this sucker is huge!  I
want it out of my rack!
 
Sam (OP)



From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Donating Servers?



Guys, did you read the original message?  He said the server was beefy.
Tells me that it is probably already running 2K3, or is at least capable
of it.  I understand that schools don't want ancient equipment, but this
is supposedly not the case here.  I used to work for a school district,
I completely understand what can/cannot be accepted.  And there was
never a statement saying it wasn't servicing his needs.  Maybe he's one
of the lucky ones that rotate equipment on a regular basis whether it
needs it or not.

 

Joe Heaton

Employment Training Panel

 

From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 1:29 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Donating Servers?

 

Schools gotta get their business done, too.  If it's not servicing your
needs, do you honestly think it will service a school's needs?  In many
cases, there will be many, many more users than the typical small office
server serves.  If the school district does offer A+ and computer
classes I can see it being useful, but if they are doing work, not so
much.

 

I had to refuse a donation of a 4 year old server that the local branch
office of the electric utility offered to us because it was too old.  At
the time, all of my servers were just over a year old.  

 

Private schools may be more interested in a donation, too.  I know many
of the private schools around here struggle for equipment.



 

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Jon Harris  wrote:

The rural county I live in told me the last time I had server or
desktops to donate that unless they were less than a year old they were
not interested.  Lucky for me the local community college loved the
donation.  They teach A+ and other computer classes so machines the
students can take apart and put together and make work on any OS works
for them.  If they don't work then they still enjoy them.

 

Jon

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Erik Goldoff 
wrote:

 I've found that many of the school districts around here will not
accept
any computer donations more than 2 or 3 years old.  They are WAY more
picky
than they were 10 years ago !



Erik Goldoff
IT  Consultant
Systems, Networks, & Security



-Original Message-
From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 4:09 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues

Subject: Re: Donating Servers?

Technology requirements may be skyrocketing, but the usefulness of
ancient
hardware is dropping faster than a rock.

In a lot of situations anything that's not capable of reasonably running
XP
or 2003 is useless.

If you do give it to a school... make sure you give them the hard
drives!

Joe Heaton wrote:
> Check with your local school district too, especially in these times.
> The technology requirements for classrooms is skyrocketing, and
> education budgets are getting slashed...

--

Phil Brutsche
p...@optimumdata.com


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
  ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Re: Win 2003 R2 quotas

[riversidekid]

It sounds like you're trying to use the old Windows 2000 style Volume  
Quota. Not sure if that's supported in R2, but Microsoft introduced a new  
Quota system, Folder quota instead of Volume quota found in START >  
Administrative Tools > File Server Resource Manager.

It's much "slicker" and provides for templates.

Which are you using, the Volume Quota system or the File Server Resource  
Manager Quota Management?


On Mar 23, 2009 4:56pm, "SMREKAR, JACK"  wrote:





> I have set quotas on a volume on a Win 2003 R2 server. I have
> set the options to hard limits and not to write anything after the limit.  
> What I
> now discovered is that none of the quotas are applying. When I go into the
> quota tab and click on view entries I get the list of students that are  
> on the
> server and the size they have on that volume but there are no limits for  
> any
> of the columns.





> I have done Google search, MS TechNet search and none of them
> seem to have the issue I am having.





> I have not tried the command line option yet to either see or
> set the quotas. Would that help or not. we have had the quotas set on this
> server for the last 3 school years and each year we have moved and then
> formatted the drive and then reset the quota. This is the only year it  
> has not
> worked.





> Jack Smrekar


> Appleton Area School District


> 920-993-7062 Ext. 2123


> A+ N+ Server +





















~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Win 2003 R2 quotas

[SMREKAR, JACK]

I have set quotas on a volume on a Win 2003 R2 server. I have set the options 
to hard limits and not to write anything after the limit. What I now discovered 
is that none of the quotas are applying. When I go into the quota tab and click 
on view entries I get the list of students that are on the server and the size 
they have on that volume  but there are no limits for any of the columns.

I have done Google search, MS TechNet search and none of them seem to have the 
issue I am having.

I have not tried the command line option yet to either see or set the quotas. 
Would that help or not. we have had the quotas set on this server for the last 
3 school years and each year we have moved and then formatted the drive and 
then reset the quota. This is the only year it has not worked.

Jack Smrekar
Appleton Area School District
920-993-7062 Ext. 2123
A+  N+  Server +

[cid:image001.gif@01C9ABD0.1002B550]

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~<>

RE: Donating Servers?

[Joe Heaton]

Guys, did you read the original message?  He said the server was beefy.
Tells me that it is probably already running 2K3, or is at least capable
of it.  I understand that schools don't want ancient equipment, but this
is supposedly not the case here.  I used to work for a school district,
I completely understand what can/cannot be accepted.  And there was
never a statement saying it wasn't servicing his needs.  Maybe he's one
of the lucky ones that rotate equipment on a regular basis whether it
needs it or not.

 

Joe Heaton

Employment Training Panel

 

From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 1:29 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Donating Servers?

 

Schools gotta get their business done, too.  If it's not servicing your
needs, do you honestly think it will service a school's needs?  In many
cases, there will be many, many more users than the typical small office
server serves.  If the school district does offer A+ and computer
classes I can see it being useful, but if they are doing work, not so
much.

 

I had to refuse a donation of a 4 year old server that the local branch
office of the electric utility offered to us because it was too old.  At
the time, all of my servers were just over a year old.  

 

Private schools may be more interested in a donation, too.  I know many
of the private schools around here struggle for equipment.



 

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Jon Harris  wrote:

The rural county I live in told me the last time I had server or
desktops to donate that unless they were less than a year old they were
not interested.  Lucky for me the local community college loved the
donation.  They teach A+ and other computer classes so machines the
students can take apart and put together and make work on any OS works
for them.  If they don't work then they still enjoy them.

 

Jon

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Erik Goldoff 
wrote:

 I've found that many of the school districts around here will not
accept
any computer donations more than 2 or 3 years old.  They are WAY more
picky
than they were 10 years ago !



Erik Goldoff
IT  Consultant
Systems, Networks, & Security



-Original Message-
From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 4:09 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues

Subject: Re: Donating Servers?

Technology requirements may be skyrocketing, but the usefulness of
ancient
hardware is dropping faster than a rock.

In a lot of situations anything that's not capable of reasonably running
XP
or 2003 is useless.

If you do give it to a school... make sure you give them the hard
drives!

Joe Heaton wrote:
> Check with your local school district too, especially in these times.
> The technology requirements for classrooms is skyrocketing, and
> education budgets are getting slashed...

--

Phil Brutsche
p...@optimumdata.com


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
  ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

 

 

 

 

 

 

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Re: free iso editor

[Micheal Espinola Jr]

http://www.google.com/search?q=free+iso+creator

I cant recall the names of any off-hand, but they exist.

--
ME2


On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:39 PM, N Parr  wrote:

> winrar can extract, don't know about add
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Miguel Gonzalez [mailto:miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.es]
> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 2:36 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: free iso editor
>
>
> Hi,
>
>  I have a bootable CD ISO. I want to add a text file to it. I've been
> googling around and I couldn't find any free tool that can do the job.
> Any way to do this?
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  Miguel
>
>
>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
>   ~
>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
>

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: free iso editor

[N Parr]

winrar can extract, don't know about add

-Original Message-
From: Miguel Gonzalez [mailto:miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.es] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 2:36 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: free iso editor


Hi,

 I have a bootable CD ISO. I want to add a text file to it. I've been
googling around and I couldn't find any free tool that can do the job.
Any way to do this?

 Thanks,

 Miguel


  

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
  ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: How many domain admins do you have?

[Eisenberg, Wayne]

I'm curious - how do you do that with GPOs?
 
Wayne



From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:57 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: How many domain admins do you have?


Only those who require Domain Administrator rights get them (those who
work extensively on AD). Everyone else has their server admin rights
limited via GPO to subsets of machines. We have custom groups for
Exchange Server Admins, Citrix Admins, VirtualCenter admins, SQL admins,
WebSense admins - on and on it goes.

Even the high-level guys have an ordinary account for normal work and an
elevated admin account to be used when needed. I would guess that most
Domain Admin access in our AD is held by service accounts, rather sadly,
although these accounts can not log on interactively, so their use is
limited that way.

2009/3/23 David Lum 


General poll: How many Systems Engineers do you guys have and
how many of them are domain administrators? If you don't want to divulge
specifics then percentages would work. For us we're at about 13 DA's /
13 SE's, although I think we should be closer to say, 4/13.

 

Comments?

David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER 
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764

 


 



 


 

 


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Donating Servers?

[John Cook]

Same here, we give them to a local High School for their web design/tech class 
to dismantle as part of their final exam.

John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership For Strong Families
315 SE 2nd Ave
Gainesville, Fl 32601
Office (352) 393-2741 x320
Cell (352) 215-6944
Fax (352) 393-2746
MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+

From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 4:17 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Donating Servers?

The rural county I live in told me the last time I had server or desktops to 
donate that unless they were less than a year old they were not interested.  
Lucky for me the local community college loved the donation.  They teach A+ and 
other computer classes so machines the students can take apart and put together 
and make work on any OS works for them.  If they don't work then they still 
enjoy them.

Jon
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Erik Goldoff 
mailto:egold...@gmail.com>> wrote:
 I've found that many of the school districts around here will not accept
any computer donations more than 2 or 3 years old.  They are WAY more picky
than they were 10 years ago !



Erik Goldoff
IT  Consultant
Systems, Networks, & Security


-Original Message-
From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 4:09 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Donating Servers?

Technology requirements may be skyrocketing, but the usefulness of ancient
hardware is dropping faster than a rock.

In a lot of situations anything that's not capable of reasonably running XP
or 2003 is useless.

If you do give it to a school... make sure you give them the hard drives!

Joe Heaton wrote:
> Check with your local school district too, especially in these times.
> The technology requirements for classrooms is skyrocketing, and
> education budgets are getting slashed...

--

Phil Brutsche
p...@optimumdata.com


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  ~


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Re: Donating Servers?

[Jonathan Link]

Schools gotta get their business done, too.  If it's not servicing your
needs, do you honestly think it will service a school's needs?  In many
cases, there will be many, many more users than the typical small office
server serves.  If the school district does offer A+ and computer classes I
can see it being useful, but if they are doing work, not so much.

I had to refuse a donation of a 4 year old server that the local branch
office of the electric utility offered to us because it was too old.  At the
time, all of my servers were just over a year old.

Private schools may be more interested in a donation, too.  I know many of
the private schools around here struggle for equipment.



On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Jon Harris  wrote:

> The rural county I live in told me the last time I had server or desktops
> to donate that unless they were less than a year old they were not
> interested.  Lucky for me the local community college loved the donation.
> They teach A+ and other computer classes so machines the students can take
> apart and put together and make work on any OS works for them.  If they
> don't work then they still enjoy them.
>
> Jon
>
>   On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Erik Goldoff wrote:
>
>>  I've found that many of the school districts around here will not accept
>> any computer donations more than 2 or 3 years old.  They are WAY more
>> picky
>> than they were 10 years ago !
>>
>>
>>
>> Erik Goldoff
>> IT  Consultant
>> Systems, Networks, & Security
>>
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com]
>> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 4:09 PM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>>  Subject: Re: Donating Servers?
>>
>> Technology requirements may be skyrocketing, but the usefulness of ancient
>> hardware is dropping faster than a rock.
>>
>> In a lot of situations anything that's not capable of reasonably running
>> XP
>> or 2003 is useless.
>>
>> If you do give it to a school... make sure you give them the hard drives!
>>
>> Joe Heaton wrote:
>> > Check with your local school district too, especially in these times.
>> > The technology requirements for classrooms is skyrocketing, and
>> > education budgets are getting slashed…
>>
>> --
>>
>> Phil Brutsche
>> p...@optimumdata.com
>>
>>
>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
>>   ~
>>
>>
>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
>> ~   ~
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
>

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Re: Donating Servers?

[Jon Harris]

The rural county I live in told me the last time I had server or desktops to
donate that unless they were less than a year old they were not interested.
Lucky for me the local community college loved the donation.  They teach A+
and other computer classes so machines the students can take apart and put
together and make work on any OS works for them.  If they don't work then
they still enjoy them.

Jon

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Erik Goldoff  wrote:

>  I've found that many of the school districts around here will not accept
> any computer donations more than 2 or 3 years old.  They are WAY more picky
> than they were 10 years ago !
>
>
>
> Erik Goldoff
> IT  Consultant
> Systems, Networks, & Security
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 4:09 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
>  Subject: Re: Donating Servers?
>
> Technology requirements may be skyrocketing, but the usefulness of ancient
> hardware is dropping faster than a rock.
>
> In a lot of situations anything that's not capable of reasonably running XP
> or 2003 is useless.
>
> If you do give it to a school... make sure you give them the hard drives!
>
> Joe Heaton wrote:
> > Check with your local school district too, especially in these times.
> > The technology requirements for classrooms is skyrocketing, and
> > education budgets are getting slashed…
>
> --
>
> Phil Brutsche
> p...@optimumdata.com
>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
>   ~
>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
>

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Donating Servers?

[Erik Goldoff]

 I've found that many of the school districts around here will not accept
any computer donations more than 2 or 3 years old.  They are WAY more picky
than they were 10 years ago !



Erik Goldoff
IT  Consultant
Systems, Networks, & Security 


-Original Message-
From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 4:09 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Donating Servers?

Technology requirements may be skyrocketing, but the usefulness of ancient
hardware is dropping faster than a rock.

In a lot of situations anything that's not capable of reasonably running XP
or 2003 is useless.

If you do give it to a school... make sure you give them the hard drives!

Joe Heaton wrote:
> Check with your local school district too, especially in these times. 
> The technology requirements for classrooms is skyrocketing, and 
> education budgets are getting slashed…

-- 

Phil Brutsche
p...@optimumdata.com


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
  ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Re: Donating Servers?

[Phil Brutsche]

Technology requirements may be skyrocketing, but the usefulness of
ancient hardware is dropping faster than a rock.

In a lot of situations anything that's not capable of reasonably running
XP or 2003 is useless.

If you do give it to a school... make sure you give them the hard drives!

Joe Heaton wrote:
> Check with your local school district too, especially in these times. 
> The technology requirements for classrooms is skyrocketing, and
> education budgets are getting slashed…

-- 

Phil Brutsche
p...@optimumdata.com


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Donating Servers?

[Joe Heaton]

Check with your local school district too, especially in these times.
The technology requirements for classrooms is skyrocketing, and
education budgets are getting slashed...

 

Joe Heaton

Employment Training Panel

 

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 9:01 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Donating Servers?

 

Just ripped out an old server circa 2001-ish, PowerEdge 6300.  Plenty
beefy.

 

Anybody know of any good avenues to pursue if one we are looking to
donate it?  Somebody must need it...  church, youth group?

 

Sam Cayze
Information Technology Administrator
ROLLOUTS
ONSITE * ON DEMAND

 

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RE: How many domain admins do you have?

[John Cook]

Blackberries, only 30 of them..;-)

John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership For Strong Families
315 SE 2nd Ave
Gainesville, Fl 32601
Office (352) 393-2741 x320
Cell (352) 215-6944
Fax (352) 393-2746
MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+

From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have?

What...no cellular?



From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:36 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have?
300 total computers here - 275 desktop/laptop + 25 training computers spread 
over 7 offices, 3 ESX servers, 1 Exchange, 1 BES, 2 Oracle, whoknowshowmany 
instances of SQL, email archiving, remote access SSL VPN appliance, Doc imaging 
application,  Fiber SAN, ISCSI SanI think that covers most of it

John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership For Strong Families
315 SE 2nd Ave
Gainesville, Fl 32601
Office (352) 393-2741 x320
Cell (352) 215-6944
Fax (352) 393-2746
MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+

From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:21 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have?

I hear ya!
Just me, 157 PCs in 8 locations across 4 states


From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:13 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have?
Me, with 125 computers up and running...

From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:12 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have?

3 - me myself and I. 2 desktop guys I'm trying to train to do some of the 
lesser duties.

John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership For Strong Families
315 SE 2nd Ave
Gainesville, Fl 32601
Office (352) 393-2741 x320
Cell (352) 215-6944
Fax (352) 393-2746
MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+

From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:47 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: How many domain admins do you have?

General poll: How many Systems Engineers do you guys have and how many of them 
are domain administrators? If you don't want to divulge specifics then 
percentages would work. For us we're at about 13 DA's / 13 SE's, although I 
think we should be closer to say, 4/13.

Comments?
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764








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RE: How many domain admins do you have?

[David Mazzaccaro]

What...no cellular?
 



From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:36 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have?



300 total computers here - 275 desktop/laptop + 25 training computers
spread over 7 offices, 3 ESX servers, 1 Exchange, 1 BES, 2 Oracle,
whoknowshowmany instances of SQL, email archiving, remote access SSL VPN
appliance, Doc imaging application,  Fiber SAN, ISCSI SanI think
that covers most of it

 

John W. Cook

Systems Administrator

Partnership For Strong Families

315 SE 2nd Ave

Gainesville, Fl 32601

Office (352) 393-2741 x320

Cell (352) 215-6944

Fax (352) 393-2746

MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+

 

From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:21 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have?

 

I hear ya!

Just me, 157 PCs in 8 locations across 4 states

 



From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:13 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have?

Me, with 125 computers up and running...

 

From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:12 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have?

 

3 - me myself and I. 2 desktop guys I'm trying to train to do some of
the lesser duties.

 

John W. Cook

Systems Administrator

Partnership For Strong Families

315 SE 2nd Ave

Gainesville, Fl 32601

Office (352) 393-2741 x320

Cell (352) 215-6944

Fax (352) 393-2746

MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+

 

From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:47 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: How many domain admins do you have?

 

General poll: How many Systems Engineers do you guys have and how many
of them are domain administrators? If you don't want to divulge
specifics then percentages would work. For us we're at about 13 DA's /
13 SE's, although I think we should be closer to say, 4/13.

 

Comments?

David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER 
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764

 

 

 

 

 



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free iso editor

[Miguel Gonzalez]

Hi,

 I have a bootable CD ISO. I want to add a text file to it. I've been googling 
around and I couldn't find any free tool that can do the job. Any way to do 
this?

 Thanks,

 Miguel


  

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RE: How many domain admins do you have?

[John Cook]

300 total computers here - 275 desktop/laptop + 25 training computers spread 
over 7 offices, 3 ESX servers, 1 Exchange, 1 BES, 2 Oracle, whoknowshowmany 
instances of SQL, email archiving, remote access SSL VPN appliance, Doc imaging 
application,  Fiber SAN, ISCSI SanI think that covers most of it

John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership For Strong Families
315 SE 2nd Ave
Gainesville, Fl 32601
Office (352) 393-2741 x320
Cell (352) 215-6944
Fax (352) 393-2746
MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+

From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:21 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have?

I hear ya!
Just me, 157 PCs in 8 locations across 4 states


From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:13 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have?
Me, with 125 computers up and running...

From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:12 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have?

3 - me myself and I. 2 desktop guys I'm trying to train to do some of the 
lesser duties.

John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership For Strong Families
315 SE 2nd Ave
Gainesville, Fl 32601
Office (352) 393-2741 x320
Cell (352) 215-6944
Fax (352) 393-2746
MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+

From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:47 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: How many domain admins do you have?

General poll: How many Systems Engineers do you guys have and how many of them 
are domain administrators? If you don't want to divulge specifics then 
percentages would work. For us we're at about 13 DA's / 13 SE's, although I 
think we should be closer to say, 4/13.

Comments?
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764








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RE: How many domain admins do you have?

[John Aldrich]

1.5: me and my assistant who rarely does anything with her admin login,
although she's got one. I do most of the "heavy lifting" of the Domain Admin
stuff. She's mostly "help desk" and helps weed out the easy stuff before it
gets to me. Then I take over, and I support a bunch of remote users, most of
whom never touch the Active Directory, but I also have a few who VPN in.
Fortunately those guys are always here at the main office sometimes.

 

John-AldrichTile-Tools

 

From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:21 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have?

 

I hear ya!

Just me, 157 PCs in 8 locations across 4 states

 

  _  

From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:13 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have?

Me, with 125 computers up and running...

 

From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:12 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have?

 

3 - me myself and I. 2 desktop guys I'm trying to train to do some of the
lesser duties.

 

John W. Cook

Systems Administrator

Partnership For Strong Families

315 SE 2nd Ave

Gainesville, Fl 32601

Office (352) 393-2741 x320

Cell (352) 215-6944

Fax (352) 393-2746

MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+

 

From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:47 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: How many domain admins do you have?

 

General poll: How many Systems Engineers do you guys have and how many of
them are domain administrators? If you don't want to divulge specifics then
percentages would work. For us we're at about 13 DA's / 13 SE's, although I
think we should be closer to say, 4/13.

 

Comments?

David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER 
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764

 

 

 

 

 

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RE: How many domain admins do you have?

[David Mazzaccaro]

I hear ya!
Just me, 157 PCs in 8 locations across 4 states



From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:13 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have?



Me, with 125 computers up and running...

 

From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:12 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have?

 

3 - me myself and I. 2 desktop guys I'm trying to train to do some of
the lesser duties.

 

John W. Cook

Systems Administrator

Partnership For Strong Families

315 SE 2nd Ave

Gainesville, Fl 32601

Office (352) 393-2741 x320

Cell (352) 215-6944

Fax (352) 393-2746

MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+

 

From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:47 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: How many domain admins do you have?

 

General poll: How many Systems Engineers do you guys have and how many
of them are domain administrators? If you don't want to divulge
specifics then percentages would work. For us we're at about 13 DA's /
13 SE's, although I think we should be closer to say, 4/13.

 

Comments?

David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER 
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764

 

 

 

 

 



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RE: How many domain admins do you have?

[Holstrom, Don]

Me, with 125 computers up and running...

 

From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:12 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have?

 

3 - me myself and I. 2 desktop guys I'm trying to train to do some of
the lesser duties.

 

John W. Cook

Systems Administrator

Partnership For Strong Families

315 SE 2nd Ave

Gainesville, Fl 32601

Office (352) 393-2741 x320

Cell (352) 215-6944

Fax (352) 393-2746

MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+

 

From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:47 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: How many domain admins do you have?

 

General poll: How many Systems Engineers do you guys have and how many
of them are domain administrators? If you don't want to divulge
specifics then percentages would work. For us we're at about 13 DA's /
13 SE's, although I think we should be closer to say, 4/13.

 

Comments?

David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER 
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764

 

 

 

 

 



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RE: How many domain admins do you have?

[John Cook]

3 - me myself and I. 2 desktop guys I'm trying to train to do some of the 
lesser duties.

John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership For Strong Families
315 SE 2nd Ave
Gainesville, Fl 32601
Office (352) 393-2741 x320
Cell (352) 215-6944
Fax (352) 393-2746
MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+

From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:47 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: How many domain admins do you have?

General poll: How many Systems Engineers do you guys have and how many of them 
are domain administrators? If you don't want to divulge specifics then 
percentages would work. For us we're at about 13 DA's / 13 SE's, although I 
think we should be closer to say, 4/13.

Comments?
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764








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Apple RAID Rant

[Vue, Za]

I expanded my  Apple  RAID configuration. It took 24 hours to add a 500 GB HD. 
However, the system does not recognize the new disk space.  The volume requires 
a format. :(  It is really not cost-effective to expand a RAID if the whole 
volume requires a format! Sure it is simple but I just have to back up 2 
terabytes of data?

There is no warning anywhere during the process that you have to format the 
volume after the expansion.

-Z.V.



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RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

[Damien Solodow]

Sure thing. :)

For resizing, I like SystemRescueCD (www.sysresccd.org) . It's a
bootable iso (convenient for vmware) that has a partition manager clone.

-Original Message-
From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 2:41 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

That worked.  Thanks 


Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572



-Original Message-
From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@ibcschools.edu] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

Interesting. Can you shut down the vcenter server?
If so, at the service console of the host that has the vcenter guest,
run vmkfstools -X to expand the vmdk.

-Original Message-
From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:38 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

Guest still only shows 20GB 


Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital
Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572



-Original Message-
From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@ibcschools.edu]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:29 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

What does the guest say though? 
Sometimes I've made changes in the viclient and have to restart it
before they show up correctly.

-Original Message-
From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:28 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

When I go back in and edit the settings of the VM again it shows the
original 20GB size. 


Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital
Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572



-Original Message-
From: mse...@ont.com [mailto:mse...@ont.com]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:23 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

If you are using Vi client and have virtual center running, right click
on VM and go to edit settings and sellect the hard drive. You should be
able to change the hard drive size if you are running ESX 3.5 and VC
2.5. You still have to change the partition size in the VM just like in
a physical server. By adding this drive to another VM you can use
diskpart.exe. You may have to restart the new VM for it to register
correctly.

Original Message:
-
From: Craig Gauss gau...@rhahealthcare.org
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:47:32 -0500
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?


I tried that but it didnt seem to want to resize correctly.  Wondering
if maybe VCenter needs to be up to do the resizing or something.  I
would resize it to 40GB.  Next time I looked at the properties it showed
the original size again.
 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital
Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572


 



From: Mike Semon [mailto:mse...@ont.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?



Here is an easy way. I use diskpart.

 

1. Power off the VM.

2. Resize vmdk.

3. Add this vmdk to another machine and use diskpart.

4. Remove this disk from this VM(where you added it as second disk).

5. Power on the source VM and you are done!

 

Mike

 

 



From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org]
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 9:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VMware - Vcenter resize?

 

The group that configured our VMware infrastructure created vcenter as a
virtual machine.  It was only sized at 20GB.  We are continually running
out of space.  Anyone know what would be the easiest way to resize the
VM?  

 

I have resized VMs in the past with no issues but am not sure how to do
the VCenter server.

 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital
Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572

 

 

 


 

 


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RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

[Craig Gauss]

That worked.  Thanks 


Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572



-Original Message-
From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@ibcschools.edu] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

Interesting. Can you shut down the vcenter server?
If so, at the service console of the host that has the vcenter guest,
run vmkfstools -X to expand the vmdk.

-Original Message-
From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:38 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

Guest still only shows 20GB 


Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital
Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572



-Original Message-
From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@ibcschools.edu]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:29 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

What does the guest say though? 
Sometimes I've made changes in the viclient and have to restart it
before they show up correctly.

-Original Message-
From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:28 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

When I go back in and edit the settings of the VM again it shows the
original 20GB size. 


Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital
Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572



-Original Message-
From: mse...@ont.com [mailto:mse...@ont.com]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:23 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

If you are using Vi client and have virtual center running, right click
on VM and go to edit settings and sellect the hard drive. You should be
able to change the hard drive size if you are running ESX 3.5 and VC
2.5. You still have to change the partition size in the VM just like in
a physical server. By adding this drive to another VM you can use
diskpart.exe. You may have to restart the new VM for it to register
correctly.

Original Message:
-
From: Craig Gauss gau...@rhahealthcare.org
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:47:32 -0500
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?


I tried that but it didnt seem to want to resize correctly.  Wondering
if maybe VCenter needs to be up to do the resizing or something.  I
would resize it to 40GB.  Next time I looked at the properties it showed
the original size again.
 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital
Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572


 



From: Mike Semon [mailto:mse...@ont.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?



Here is an easy way. I use diskpart.

 

1. Power off the VM.

2. Resize vmdk.

3. Add this vmdk to another machine and use diskpart.

4. Remove this disk from this VM(where you added it as second disk).

5. Power on the source VM and you are done!

 

Mike

 

 



From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org]
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 9:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VMware - Vcenter resize?

 

The group that configured our VMware infrastructure created vcenter as a
virtual machine.  It was only sized at 20GB.  We are continually running
out of space.  Anyone know what would be the easiest way to resize the
VM?  

 

I have resized VMs in the past with no issues but am not sure how to do
the VCenter server.

 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital
Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572

 

 

 


 

 


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RE: How many domain admins do you have?

[Malcolm Reitz]

This is very similar to where we are with elevated privilege accounts. You
only have the privileges if you need them, and they won't be attached to
your normal login account. We even have the same service account issue :-(

 

There aren't that many normal operational tasks that actually require domain
admin privileges.

 

-Malcolm

 

From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:57 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: How many domain admins do you have?

 

Only those who require Domain Administrator rights get them (those who work
extensively on AD). Everyone else has their server admin rights limited via
GPO to subsets of machines. We have custom groups for Exchange Server
Admins, Citrix Admins, VirtualCenter admins, SQL admins, WebSense admins -
on and on it goes.

Even the high-level guys have an ordinary account for normal work and an
elevated admin account to be used when needed. I would guess that most
Domain Admin access in our AD is held by service accounts, rather sadly,
although these accounts can not log on interactively, so their use is
limited that way.

2009/3/23 David Lum 

General poll: How many Systems Engineers do you guys have and how many of
them are domain administrators? If you don't want to divulge specifics then
percentages would work. For us we're at about 13 DA's / 13 SE's, although I
think we should be closer to say, 4/13.

 

Comments?

David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER 
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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RE: OT: Donating Servers?

[John Aldrich]

No, no, no! MY server room!

 

John-AldrichTile-Tools

 

From: Todd Lemmiksoo [mailto:tlemmik...@all-mode.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 2:14 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT: Donating Servers?

 

My server room.

 

  _  

From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 12:09 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT: Donating Servers?

My basement server farm.

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Sam Cayze  wrote:

Just ripped out an old server circa 2001-ish, PowerEdge 6300.  Plenty beefy.

 

Anybody know of any good avenues to pursue if one we are looking to donate
it?  Somebody must need it...  church, youth group?

 

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RE: OT: Donating Servers?

[Todd Lemmiksoo]

My server room.



From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 12:09 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT: Donating Servers?


My basement server farm.


On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Sam Cayze 
wrote:


Just ripped out an old server circa 2001-ish, PowerEdge 6300.
Plenty beefy.
 
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Re: RichCopy

[Kevin Lundy]

Looks like it will do it from a command line, but not from the GUI.

Richcopy.exe   /CA /CSA /CSD /CSG /CSO

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Kevin Lundy  wrote:
> Rob, if I'm following you, that is one of the options to use security
> info as a selection criteria.  Not as an option to copy the security
> settings.
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Rob Bonfiglio  
> wrote:
>> Look under Action - Copy Options, and then select File attributes, Error
>> Handling from the pane on the left.  It looks like you can select security
>> info to be copied from there.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Kevin Lundy  wrote:
>>>
>>> Pretty neat tool.  Except it doesn't appear to preserve NTFS
>>> permissions, unless we have missed a switch or something??
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Rob Bonfiglio 
>>> wrote:
>>> > We just got an e-mail from our Microsoft Rep which linked us to this
>>> > utility.  Apparently it's used a lot w/in Microsoft.  The article gives
>>> > some
>>> > background to RichCopy.  It is a multi-threaded GUI file copying
>>> > utility.  I
>>> > thought some of you all might find it useful, if you haven't seen it
>>> > already.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx?pr=blog
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
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Re: RichCopy

[Micheal Espinola Jr]

That's Mickeysoft being thorough for ya...

--
ME2


On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:40 PM, René de Haas wrote:

>  Strange to put this in Readme.txt and have it available for download.
>
>
>
> 
>
> Before using RichCopy...
>
> 
>
>
>
> This is Microsoft Internal Tool. It is not allowed to use
>
> this tool outside of Microsoft Corporate network without
>
> following appropriate approval process or accepting agreement
>
> Microsoft corporation defines.
>
>
>
>
>
> Looks very useful anyway, thanks.
>
> René
>
>
>
> *From:* Rob Bonfiglio [mailto:robbonfig...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, March 23, 2009 4:23 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: RichCopy
>
>
>
> Look under Action - Copy Options, and then select File attributes, Error
> Handling from the pane on the left.  It looks like you can select security
> info to be copied from there.
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Kevin Lundy  wrote:
>
> Pretty neat tool.  Except it doesn't appear to preserve NTFS
> permissions, unless we have missed a switch or something??
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Rob Bonfiglio 
> wrote:
> > We just got an e-mail from our Microsoft Rep which linked us to this
> > utility.  Apparently it's used a lot w/in Microsoft.  The article gives
> some
> > background to RichCopy.  It is a multi-threaded GUI file copying
> utility.  I
> > thought some of you all might find it useful, if you haven't seen it
> > already.
> >
> >
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx?pr=blog
> >
> >
> >
> >
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RE: RichCopy

[Kennedy, Jim]

I have just done some quick testing, and the settings on that page do copy 
security. Also, they are the same exact syntax that you would use with robocopy 
from a command line.  For example /sec and /copyall are the switches

I have seen this tool before, it is just a gui over robocopy. And that options 
page get you where you want to be.




> -Original Message-
> From: Kevin Lundy [mailto:klu...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 1:09 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: RichCopy
> 
> Rob, if I'm following you, that is one of the options to use security
> info as a selection criteria.  Not as an option to copy the security
> settings.
> 
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Rob Bonfiglio
>  wrote:
> > Look under Action - Copy Options, and then select File attributes,
> Error
> > Handling from the pane on the left.  It looks like you can select
> security
> > info to be copied from there.
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Kevin Lundy 
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Pretty neat tool.  Except it doesn't appear to preserve NTFS
> >> permissions, unless we have missed a switch or something??
> >>
> >> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Rob Bonfiglio
> 
> >> wrote:
> >> > We just got an e-mail from our Microsoft Rep which linked us to
> this
> >> > utility.  Apparently it's used a lot w/in Microsoft.  The article
> gives
> >> > some
> >> > background to RichCopy.  It is a multi-threaded GUI file copying
> >> > utility.  I
> >> > thought some of you all might find it useful, if you haven't seen
> it
> >> > already.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-
> us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx?pr=blog
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> >> ~   ~
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Re: RichCopy

[Kevin Lundy]

Rob, if I'm following you, that is one of the options to use security
info as a selection criteria.  Not as an option to copy the security
settings.

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Rob Bonfiglio  wrote:
> Look under Action - Copy Options, and then select File attributes, Error
> Handling from the pane on the left.  It looks like you can select security
> info to be copied from there.
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Kevin Lundy  wrote:
>>
>> Pretty neat tool.  Except it doesn't appear to preserve NTFS
>> permissions, unless we have missed a switch or something??
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Rob Bonfiglio 
>> wrote:
>> > We just got an e-mail from our Microsoft Rep which linked us to this
>> > utility.  Apparently it's used a lot w/in Microsoft.  The article gives
>> > some
>> > background to RichCopy.  It is a multi-threaded GUI file copying
>> > utility.  I
>> > thought some of you all might find it useful, if you haven't seen it
>> > already.
>> >
>> >
>> > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx?pr=blog
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
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>>
>
>
>
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RE: DFS

[Doige, Clayton]

Cool, thanks, will change that and test J

 

From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] 
Sent: 23 March 2009 16:44
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: DFS

 

In your mapping for the home folder, you have \\dc\home
 .

If the dc refers to the domain controller, then you need to change the
mapping to \\domain\dfs-sharename\root\%username%
 

In our case, the domain is vhcc.edu so the share is
\\vhcc\homedirs\%username%  

 

 

From: Doige, Clayton [mailto:clayton.do...@cme-net.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 12:36 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: DFS

 

Hi all, I am testing DFS on Windows 2003 R2

 

I have the following set up to simulate an intended outcome.

 

At one 'site' I have a DC and a separate file server (F1). At another
site I have a DC with the file server roll installed (F2). There is a
router between the two sites, and both sites have local DHCP.

 

I have created the DFS Root on the DC in the first site, and then set it
all up so a specific folder at the same path on F1 and F2 replicate via
DFS.

 

I have a client PC who's user has their home drive mapped to a folder in
the DFS tree (\\dc\home\root\%username%
 )

 

What I am gunning for is getting this home drive available offline, and
for it to sync when the laptop connects to either site.

 

Most of the time when I am switching between sites offline files say
they have sync'd, but have not; it's basically flakey at best.

 

I was wondering if anyone out there is using DFS specifically with home
drive access as described above in mind, and if so if you can point out
any gotchas I should be looking for, as this is my first crack at DFS in
general.

 

Many thanks

 

Clayton Doige

IT Project Manager

CME Development Corporation

T: 020 7430 5355

M: 07949 255062

E:clayton.do...@cme-net.com

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RE: DFS

[Glen Johnson]

In your mapping for the home folder, you have \\dc\home
 .

If the dc refers to the domain controller, then you need to change the
mapping to \\domain\dfs-sharename\root\%username%
 

In our case, the domain is vhcc.edu so the share is
\\vhcc\homedirs\%username%  

 

 

From: Doige, Clayton [mailto:clayton.do...@cme-net.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 12:36 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: DFS

 

Hi all, I am testing DFS on Windows 2003 R2

 

I have the following set up to simulate an intended outcome.

 

At one 'site' I have a DC and a separate file server (F1). At another
site I have a DC with the file server roll installed (F2). There is a
router between the two sites, and both sites have local DHCP.

 

I have created the DFS Root on the DC in the first site, and then set it
all up so a specific folder at the same path on F1 and F2 replicate via
DFS.

 

I have a client PC who's user has their home drive mapped to a folder in
the DFS tree (\\dc\home\root\%username%
 )

 

What I am gunning for is getting this home drive available offline, and
for it to sync when the laptop connects to either site.

 

Most of the time when I am switching between sites offline files say
they have sync'd, but have not; it's basically flakey at best.

 

I was wondering if anyone out there is using DFS specifically with home
drive access as described above in mind, and if so if you can point out
any gotchas I should be looking for, as this is my first crack at DFS in
general.

 

Many thanks

 

Clayton Doige

IT Project Manager

CME Development Corporation

T: 020 7430 5355

M: 07949 255062

E:clayton.do...@cme-net.com

W:www.cetv-net.com

 


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Re: How many domain admins do you have?

[Kurt Buff]

For this office, around 230 employees, of which 9 are IT staff. Of the
IT staff, 4 are responsible for infrastructure (desktop support plus
server and network support) and of those, we have two DAs - myself and
a relative newb who's learning fast. The desktop support guys are
definitely not DAs.

While those number might seem a bit high, our IT staff also support
two foreign offices, totaling around 60 people. In those foreign
offices, there are a couple of part timers whom I supervise as well.

Kurt

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 08:47, David Lum  wrote:
> General poll: How many Systems Engineers do you guys have and how many of
> them are domain administrators? If you don’t want to divulge specifics then
> percentages would work. For us we’re at about 13 DA’s / 13 SE’s, although I
> think we should be closer to say, 4/13.
>
>
>
> Comments?
>
> David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
> NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
> (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764
>
>
>
>
>
>

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Re: How many domain admins do you have?

[Steven Peck]

We have around 30 admin/engineer levels and 4 domain admins.

Steven

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Tim Vander Kooi  wrote:
> My family supported you REALLY well.
>
>  ;-)
>
>
>
>
>
> From: Thomas Gonzalez [mailto:tgonza...@girlscouts-swtx.org]
> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:51 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have?
>
>
>
> 1…only me…not enough cookies sold to hire someone L
>
>
>
> From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:47 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: How many domain admins do you have?
>
>
>
> General poll: How many Systems Engineers do you guys have and how many of
> them are domain administrators? If you don’t want to divulge specifics then
> percentages would work. For us we’re at about 13 DA’s / 13 SE’s, although I
> think we should be closer to say, 4/13.
>
>
>
> Comments?
>
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Re: IE 8 today

[Sherry Abercrombie]

Kronos and Siebeland if they've certified them, they haven't
bothered telling us about it.

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:36 AM, David Lum  wrote:

>  If you ask me not having IE7 certified for those two enterprise
> application doesn’t speak highly of the company who created those enterprise
> apps. IE7 isn’t exactly new nor in minority use.
>
>
>
> Unless of course it’s something that runs primarily on Mac’s or similar.
>
> *David Lum** **// *SYSTEMS ENGINEER
> NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
> (Desk) 971.222.1025 *// *(Cell) 503.267.9764
>
> *From:* Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:36 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: IE 8 today
>
>
>
> I became a fan and user of Firefox years ago when it was the only browser
> to offer tabbed browsing.  Just because IE now offers that, I still see no
> reason to switch back.  Ironically, at my work, we still haven't implemented
> IE7 because of two enterprise applications that have not been certified on
> IE7 by the software companies for use with their web based interfaces.
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Michael Ross  wrote:
>
> All good points.. really.
> However.. I disagree  that it IS more secure..
> For example.. a recent issue...
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2934
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
>
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:10 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: IE 8 today
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Michael Ross  wrote:
> > I dunno why.. but I disagree with statement touting that firefox is the
> top
> > dog to work with or use..
>
>  Okay, I'll bite... :)  It's been a long week; this will be refreshing...
> :)
>
>  I like Firefox better.  It's faster and more flexible.  Firefox
> tends to work they way I want.  I can make it do what I want more
> easily.  There are more useful extensions for Firefox
>
>  Firefox works on all my computers, not just XP and Vista.  Yes, we
> still have Win 2000 in production at work.  I've got Linux at home and
> on my laptop.  Firefox runs everywhere..
>
>  Extensions to MSIE, like IE7Pro, let IE catch up to Firefox in many
> ways, but Firefox has been doing more of what I want "out of the box"
> for years and years, when MSFT was still leaving us languishing with
> MSIE 6.  Why should I go through the pain and effort of switching back
> now?
>
>  The development community responds better and faster than Microsoft.
>  See above.
>
>  In practice, I think Firefox is more secure than MSIE.  Web
> developers wanting to target MSIE are encouraged to use ActiveX, and
> downloading native machine code over the Internet into a browser is
> horrible idea and always was.  NoScript blocks even JavaScript-based
> attacks.  Permit Cookies lets me manage cookie permission easily.
>
>  The fact that some sites *still* don't work right with anything but
> MSIE 6, and the fact that Microsoft *still( makes it unreasonably hard
> to run multiple versions of their browser, means that I can't even
> really try seriously newer releases.  With Firefox, I can simply
> install to a different directory.  It takes all of five seconds.
>
> >  I have zero issues using IE7 ...
> > Zero.. EXCEPT ...
>
>  "That word you keep using.  I do not think it means what you think
> it means."  :)
>
> > as far at the memory issue.. e I just reboot and in 1.5
>
> > minutes ...
>
>  Another thing I like about Firefox is that, since it hasn't been
> shoved into the OS core in an attempt to stifle competition (see
> Findings of Fact, US v. MSFT, 5 Nov 1999), I can easily shutdown,
> kill, and/or upgrade the browser without having to reboot my *entire
> computer*.
>
> -- Ben
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
>
>
>
> --
> Sherry Abercrombie
>
> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
> Arthur C. Clarke
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>


-- 
Sherry Abercrombie

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke
Sent from: Haslet TX United States.

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~   ~

RE: RichCopy

[René de Haas]

Strange to put this in Readme.txt and have it available for download.

 



Before using RichCopy...



 

This is Microsoft Internal Tool. It is not allowed to use 

this tool outside of Microsoft Corporate network without 

following appropriate approval process or accepting agreement

Microsoft corporation defines.

 

 

Looks very useful anyway, thanks.

Reÿé

 

From: Rob Bonfiglio [mailto:robbonfig...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 4:23 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: RichCopy

 

Look under Action - Copy Options, and then select File attributes, Error 
Handling from the pane on the left.  It looks like you can select security info 
to be copied from there.

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Kevin Lundy  wrote:

Pretty neat tool.  Except it doesn't appear to preserve NTFS
permissions, unless we have missed a switch or something??


On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Rob Bonfiglio  wrote:
> We just got an e-mail from our Microsoft Rep which linked us to this
> utility.  Apparently it's used a lot w/in Microsoft.  The article gives some
> background to RichCopy.  It is a multi-threaded GUI file copying utility.  I
> thought some of you all might find it useful, if you haven't seen it
> already.
>
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx?pr=blog
>
>
>
>

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RE: IE 8 today

[Kennedy, Jim]

At the very least the accountants should be calling their contacts at the 
banks, their account managers or loan officers and raising a stink.

No IT department, mine included, should force customers to use something that 
is now two versions ago




> -Original Message-
> From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 12:33 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: IE 8 today
> 
> I was about to say the same thing... but try it with IE8 first *before*
> telling 'em to get a new bank.
> 
> Kennedy, Jim wrote:
> > A bank that doesn't support IE7 yet? Time for a new bank.
> 
> --
> 
> Phil Brutsche
> p...@optimumdata.com
> 
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DFS

[Doige, Clayton]

Hi all, I am testing DFS on Windows 2003 R2

 

I have the following set up to simulate an intended outcome.

 

At one 'site' I have a DC and a separate file server (F1). At another
site I have a DC with the file server roll installed (F2). There is a
router between the two sites, and both sites have local DHCP.

 

I have created the DFS Root on the DC in the first site, and then set it
all up so a specific folder at the same path on F1 and F2 replicate via
DFS.

 

I have a client PC who's user has their home drive mapped to a folder in
the DFS tree (\\dc\home\root\%username%
 )

 

What I am gunning for is getting this home drive available offline, and
for it to sync when the laptop connects to either site.

 

Most of the time when I am switching between sites offline files say
they have sync'd, but have not; it's basically flakey at best.

 

I was wondering if anyone out there is using DFS specifically with home
drive access as described above in mind, and if so if you can point out
any gotchas I should be looking for, as this is my first crack at DFS in
general.

 

Many thanks

 

Clayton Doige

IT Project Manager

CME Development Corporation

T: 020 7430 5355

M: 07949 255062

E:clayton.do...@cme-net.com  

W:www.cetv-net.com  

 


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Re: IE 8 today

[Phil Brutsche]

I was about to say the same thing... but try it with IE8 first *before*
telling 'em to get a new bank.

Kennedy, Jim wrote:
> A bank that doesn’t support IE7 yet? Time for a new bank.

-- 

Phil Brutsche
p...@optimumdata.com

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RE: IE 8 today

[Kennedy, Jim]

A bank that doesn't support IE7 yet? Time for a new bank.


From: Ralph Smith [mailto:m...@gatewayindustries.org]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 12:09 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IE 8 today

That's true, but I also have had to keep certain members of our accounting 
department on IE6 because a couple of bank web sites they need to use blow up 
with IE7, and the bank's tech support states that IE7 is not supported.


From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:36 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IE 8 today

If you ask me not having IE7 certified for those two enterprise application 
doesn't speak highly of the company who created those enterprise apps. IE7 
isn't exactly new nor in minority use.

Unless of course it's something that runs primarily on Mac's or similar.
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764
From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:36 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IE 8 today

I became a fan and user of Firefox years ago when it was the only browser to 
offer tabbed browsing.  Just because IE now offers that, I still see no reason 
to switch back.  Ironically, at my work, we still haven't implemented IE7 
because of two enterprise applications that have not been certified on IE7 by 
the software companies for use with their web based interfaces.
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Michael Ross 
mailto:mr...@itwif.com>> wrote:
All good points.. really.
However.. I disagree  that it IS more secure..
For example.. a recent issue...
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2934


-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IE 8 today
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Michael Ross 
mailto:mr...@itwif.com>> wrote:
> I dunno why.. but I disagree with statement touting that firefox is the
top
> dog to work with or use..
 Okay, I'll bite... :)  It's been a long week; this will be refreshing...
:)

 I like Firefox better.  It's faster and more flexible.  Firefox
tends to work they way I want.  I can make it do what I want more
easily.  There are more useful extensions for Firefox

 Firefox works on all my computers, not just XP and Vista.  Yes, we
still have Win 2000 in production at work.  I've got Linux at home and
on my laptop.  Firefox runs everywhere..

 Extensions to MSIE, like IE7Pro, let IE catch up to Firefox in many
ways, but Firefox has been doing more of what I want "out of the box"
for years and years, when MSFT was still leaving us languishing with
MSIE 6.  Why should I go through the pain and effort of switching back
now?

 The development community responds better and faster than Microsoft.
 See above.

 In practice, I think Firefox is more secure than MSIE.  Web
developers wanting to target MSIE are encouraged to use ActiveX, and
downloading native machine code over the Internet into a browser is
horrible idea and always was.  NoScript blocks even JavaScript-based
attacks.  Permit Cookies lets me manage cookie permission easily.

 The fact that some sites *still* don't work right with anything but
MSIE 6, and the fact that Microsoft *still( makes it unreasonably hard
to run multiple versions of their browser, means that I can't even
really try seriously newer releases.  With Firefox, I can simply
install to a different directory.  It takes all of five seconds.

>  I have zero issues using IE7 ...
> Zero.. EXCEPT ...

 "That word you keep using.  I do not think it means what you think
it means."  :)
> as far at the memory issue.. e I just reboot and in 1.5
> minutes ...

 Another thing I like about Firefox is that, since it hasn't been
shoved into the OS core in an attempt to stifle competition (see
Findings of Fact, US v. MSFT, 5 Nov 1999), I can easily shutdown,
kill, and/or upgrade the browser without having to reboot my *entire
computer*.
-- Ben

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RE: Donating Servers?

[Tim Evans]

Don't know where you are, but Mercy Corp in Portland OR. would probably be able 
to use it. I can forward you info if you need it.


...Tim

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 9:01 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Donating Servers?

Just ripped out an old server circa 2001-ish, PowerEdge 6300.  Plenty beefy.

Anybody know of any good avenues to pursue if one we are looking to donate it?  
Somebody must need it...  church, youth group?

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RE: IE 8 today

[Ralph Smith]

That's true, but I also have had to keep certain members of our
accounting department on IE6 because a couple of bank web sites they
need to use blow up with IE7, and the bank's tech support states that
IE7 is not supported.

 



From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:36 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IE 8 today

 

If you ask me not having IE7 certified for those two enterprise
application doesn't speak highly of the company who created those
enterprise apps. IE7 isn't exactly new nor in minority use.

 

Unless of course it's something that runs primarily on Mac's or similar.

David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER 
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764

From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:36 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IE 8 today

 

I became a fan and user of Firefox years ago when it was the only
browser to offer tabbed browsing.  Just because IE now offers that, I
still see no reason to switch back.  Ironically, at my work, we still
haven't implemented IE7 because of two enterprise applications that have
not been certified on IE7 by the software companies for use with their
web based interfaces.  

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Michael Ross  wrote:

All good points.. really.
However.. I disagree  that it IS more secure..
For example.. a recent issue...
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2934



-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]

Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IE 8 today

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Michael Ross  wrote:
> I dunno why.. but I disagree with statement touting that firefox is
the
top
> dog to work with or use..

 Okay, I'll bite... :)  It's been a long week; this will be
refreshing...
:)

 I like Firefox better.  It's faster and more flexible.  Firefox
tends to work they way I want.  I can make it do what I want more
easily.  There are more useful extensions for Firefox

 Firefox works on all my computers, not just XP and Vista.  Yes, we
still have Win 2000 in production at work.  I've got Linux at home and
on my laptop.  Firefox runs everywhere..

 Extensions to MSIE, like IE7Pro, let IE catch up to Firefox in many
ways, but Firefox has been doing more of what I want "out of the box"
for years and years, when MSFT was still leaving us languishing with
MSIE 6.  Why should I go through the pain and effort of switching back
now?

 The development community responds better and faster than Microsoft.
 See above.

 In practice, I think Firefox is more secure than MSIE.  Web
developers wanting to target MSIE are encouraged to use ActiveX, and
downloading native machine code over the Internet into a browser is
horrible idea and always was.  NoScript blocks even JavaScript-based
attacks.  Permit Cookies lets me manage cookie permission easily.

 The fact that some sites *still* don't work right with anything but
MSIE 6, and the fact that Microsoft *still( makes it unreasonably hard
to run multiple versions of their browser, means that I can't even
really try seriously newer releases.  With Firefox, I can simply
install to a different directory.  It takes all of five seconds.

>  I have zero issues using IE7 ...
> Zero.. EXCEPT ...

 "That word you keep using.  I do not think it means what you think
it means."  :)

> as far at the memory issue.. e I just reboot and in 1.5

> minutes ...

 Another thing I like about Firefox is that, since it hasn't been
shoved into the OS core in an attempt to stifle competition (see
Findings of Fact, US v. MSFT, 5 Nov 1999), I can easily shutdown,
kill, and/or upgrade the browser without having to reboot my *entire
computer*.

-- Ben

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~   ~



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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." 
Arthur C. Clarke

 

 

 

 

 

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Re: OT: Donating Servers?

[Steve Ens]

My basement server farm.

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Sam Cayze  wrote:

>  Just ripped out an old server circa 2001-ish, PowerEdge 6300.  Plenty
> beefy.
>
> Anybody know of any good avenues to pursue if one we are looking to donate
> it?  Somebody must need it...  church, youth group?
>
>
>
> Sam Cayze
> Information Technology Administrator
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Re: How many domain admins do you have?

[Ben Scott]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:47 AM, David Lum  wrote:
> General poll: How many Systems Engineers do you guys have and how many of
> them are domain administrators?

  We've currently got two IT guys at %DAYJOB%, me and the greenhorn.
Neither of the accounts we use for day-to-day usage have admin
privileges to any machine or domain, not even the machines on our
desks.  We use separate accounts for workstation admin tasks and
network/server admin tasks.

-- Ben

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RE: Donating Servers?

[Kennedy, Jim]

Local school district is also a good bet.


From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 12:01 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Donating Servers?

Just ripped out an old server circa 2001-ish, PowerEdge 6300.  Plenty beefy.

Anybody know of any good avenues to pursue if one we are looking to donate it?  
Somebody must need it...  church, youth group?

Sam Cayze
Information Technology Administrator
ROLLOUTS
ONSITE * ON DEMAND

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Re: How many domain admins do you have?

[Micheal Espinola Jr]

Girl Scouts of America is an empire.  I worked for them years ago as a net
admin.  So many cookies coming and going...  but still, most of it goes
right back to the girls, not the employees.  Its a not for profit org, and
the employees don't.

--
ME2


On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Tim Vander Kooi wrote:

>  My family supported you REALLY well.
>
>  ;-)
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Thomas Gonzalez [mailto:tgonza...@girlscouts-swtx.org]
> *Sent:* Monday, March 23, 2009 10:51 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: How many domain admins do you have?
>
>
>
> 1…only me…not enough cookies sold to hire someone L
>
>
>
> *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
> *Sent:* Monday, March 23, 2009 10:47 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* How many domain admins do you have?
>
>
>
> General poll: How many Systems Engineers do you guys have and how many of
> them are domain administrators? If you don’t want to divulge specifics then
> percentages would work. For us we’re at about 13 DA’s / 13 SE’s, although I
> think we should be closer to say, 4/13.
>
>
>
> Comments?
>
> *David** Lum** **// *SYSTEMS ENGINEER
> NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
> (Desk) 971.222.1025 *// *(Cell) 503.267.9764
>
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OT: Donating Servers?

[Sam Cayze]

Just ripped out an old server circa 2001-ish, PowerEdge 6300.  Plenty
beefy.
 
Anybody know of any good avenues to pursue if one we are looking to
donate it?  Somebody must need it...  church, youth group?

 

Sam Cayze
Information Technology Administrator
ROLLOUTS
ONSITE * ON DEMAND

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Re: How many domain admins do you have?

[Jon Harris]

Only one here as well and I do everything but Web design, Graphics and
electricity.  They took the electricity away from me when they found me
wiring a trouble makers chair for 3 110 lines, (JOKING well sort of, I asked
if anyone would mind if I did and seems they actually thought I would do
that).

Jon

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Tim Vander Kooi wrote:

>  My family supported you REALLY well.
>
>  ;-)
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Thomas Gonzalez [mailto:tgonza...@girlscouts-swtx.org]
> *Sent:* Monday, March 23, 2009 10:51 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: How many domain admins do you have?
>
>
>
> 1…only me…not enough cookies sold to hire someone L
>
>
>
> *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
> *Sent:* Monday, March 23, 2009 10:47 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* How many domain admins do you have?
>
>
>
> General poll: How many Systems Engineers do you guys have and how many of
> them are domain administrators? If you don’t want to divulge specifics then
> percentages would work. For us we’re at about 13 DA’s / 13 SE’s, although I
> think we should be closer to say, 4/13.
>
>
>
> Comments?
>
> *David** Lum** **// *SYSTEMS ENGINEER
> NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
> (Desk) 971.222.1025 *// *(Cell) 503.267.9764
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Re: How many domain admins do you have?

[James Rankin]

Only those who require Domain Administrator rights get them (those who work
extensively on AD). Everyone else has their server admin rights limited via
GPO to subsets of machines. We have custom groups for Exchange Server
Admins, Citrix Admins, VirtualCenter admins, SQL admins, WebSense admins -
on and on it goes.

Even the high-level guys have an ordinary account for normal work and an
elevated admin account to be used when needed. I would guess that most
Domain Admin access in our AD is held by service accounts, rather sadly,
although these accounts can not log on interactively, so their use is
limited that way.

2009/3/23 David Lum 

>  General poll: How many Systems Engineers do you guys have and how many of
> them are domain administrators? If you don’t want to divulge specifics then
> percentages would work. For us we’re at about 13 DA’s / 13 SE’s, although I
> think we should be closer to say, 4/13.
>
>
>
> Comments?
>
> *David Lum** **// *SYSTEMS ENGINEER
> NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
> (Desk) 971.222.1025 *// *(Cell) 503.267.9764
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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~   ~

RE: How many domain admins do you have?

[Tim Vander Kooi]

My family supported you REALLY well.
 ;-)


From: Thomas Gonzalez [mailto:tgonza...@girlscouts-swtx.org]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:51 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: How many domain admins do you have?

1...only me...not enough cookies sold to hire someone :(

From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:47 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: How many domain admins do you have?

General poll: How many Systems Engineers do you guys have and how many of them 
are domain administrators? If you don't want to divulge specifics then 
percentages would work. For us we're at about 13 DA's / 13 SE's, although I 
think we should be closer to say, 4/13.

Comments?
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764







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RE: How many domain admins do you have?

[Thomas Gonzalez]

1...only me...not enough cookies sold to hire someone L

 

From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:47 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: How many domain admins do you have?

 

General poll: How many Systems Engineers do you guys have and how many
of them are domain administrators? If you don't want to divulge
specifics then percentages would work. For us we're at about 13 DA's /
13 SE's, although I think we should be closer to say, 4/13.

 

Comments?

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NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764

 

 

 

 



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RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

[Craig Gauss]

Yes
 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572


 



From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:46 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: VMware - Vcenter resize?


Forgive me asking, you are shutting the machine down first? Apologies if
you are


2009/3/23 Craig Gauss 


Guest still only shows 20GB



Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572



-Original Message-

From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@ibcschools.edu]

Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:29 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

What does the guest say though?
Sometimes I've made changes in the viclient and have to restart
it
before they show up correctly.

-Original Message-
From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:28 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

When I go back in and edit the settings of the VM again it shows
the
original 20GB size.


Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview
Hospital
Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572



-Original Message-
From: mse...@ont.com [mailto:mse...@ont.com]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:23 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

If you are using Vi client and have virtual center running,
right click
on VM and go to edit settings and sellect the hard drive. You
should be
able to change the hard drive size if you are running ESX 3.5
and VC
2.5. You still have to change the partition size in the VM just
like in
a physical server. By adding this drive to another VM you can
use
diskpart.exe. You may have to restart the new VM for it to
register
correctly.

Original Message:
-
From: Craig Gauss gau...@rhahealthcare.org
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:47:32 -0500
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?


I tried that but it didnt seem to want to resize correctly.
Wondering
if maybe VCenter needs to be up to do the resizing or something.
I
would resize it to 40GB.  Next time I looked at the properties
it showed
the original size again.


Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview
Hospital
Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572






From: Mike Semon [mailto:mse...@ont.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?



Here is an easy way. I use diskpart.



1. Power off the VM.

2. Resize vmdk.

3. Add this vmdk to another machine and use diskpart.

4. Remove this disk from this VM(where you added it as second
disk).

5. Power on the source VM and you are done!



Mike







From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org]
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 9:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VMware - Vcenter resize?



The group that configured our VMware infrastructure created
vcenter as a
virtual machine.  It was only sized at 20GB.  We are continually
running
out of space.  Anyone know what would be the easiest way to
resize the
VM?



I have resized VMs in the past with no issues but am not sure
how to do
the VCenter server.



Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview
Hospital
Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572













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~ ~
  ~



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How many domain admins do you have?

[David Lum]

General poll: How many Systems Engineers do you guys have and how many of them 
are domain administrators? If you don't want to divulge specifics then 
percentages would work. For us we're at about 13 DA's / 13 SE's, although I 
think we should be closer to say, 4/13.

Comments?
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Re: VMware - Vcenter resize?

[James Rankin]

Forgive me asking, you are shutting the machine down first? Apologies if you
are

2009/3/23 Craig Gauss 

> Guest still only shows 20GB
>
>
> Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
> Riverview Hospital Association
> Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@ibcschools.edu]
> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:29 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?
>
> What does the guest say though?
> Sometimes I've made changes in the viclient and have to restart it
> before they show up correctly.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org]
> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:28 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?
>
> When I go back in and edit the settings of the VM again it shows the
> original 20GB size.
>
>
> Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital
> Association
> Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: mse...@ont.com [mailto:mse...@ont.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:23 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?
>
> If you are using Vi client and have virtual center running, right click
> on VM and go to edit settings and sellect the hard drive. You should be
> able to change the hard drive size if you are running ESX 3.5 and VC
> 2.5. You still have to change the partition size in the VM just like in
> a physical server. By adding this drive to another VM you can use
> diskpart.exe. You may have to restart the new VM for it to register
> correctly.
>
> Original Message:
> -
> From: Craig Gauss gau...@rhahealthcare.org
> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:47:32 -0500
> To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
> Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?
>
>
> I tried that but it didnt seem to want to resize correctly.  Wondering
> if maybe VCenter needs to be up to do the resizing or something.  I
> would resize it to 40GB.  Next time I looked at the properties it showed
> the original size again.
>
>
> Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital
> Association
> Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572
>
>
>
>
> 
>
> From: Mike Semon [mailto:mse...@ont.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:04 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?
>
>
>
> Here is an easy way. I use diskpart.
>
>
>
> 1. Power off the VM.
>
> 2. Resize vmdk.
>
> 3. Add this vmdk to another machine and use diskpart.
>
> 4. Remove this disk from this VM(where you added it as second disk).
>
> 5. Power on the source VM and you are done!
>
>
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
>
> 
>
> From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org]
> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 9:10 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: VMware - Vcenter resize?
>
>
>
> The group that configured our VMware infrastructure created vcenter as a
> virtual machine.  It was only sized at 20GB.  We are continually running
> out of space.  Anyone know what would be the easiest way to resize the
> VM?
>
>
>
> I have resized VMs in the past with no issues but am not sure how to do
> the VCenter server.
>
>
>
> Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital
> Association
> Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
>   ~
>
> 
> myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft(r) Windows(r) and Linux web and
> application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting
>
>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
>   ~
>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
>   ~
>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
>   ~
>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
>

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~   ~

RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

[Damien Solodow]

Interesting. Can you shut down the vcenter server?
If so, at the service console of the host that has the vcenter guest,
run vmkfstools -X to expand the vmdk.

-Original Message-
From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:38 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

Guest still only shows 20GB 


Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572



-Original Message-
From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@ibcschools.edu] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:29 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

What does the guest say though? 
Sometimes I've made changes in the viclient and have to restart it
before they show up correctly.

-Original Message-
From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:28 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

When I go back in and edit the settings of the VM again it shows the
original 20GB size. 


Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital
Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572



-Original Message-
From: mse...@ont.com [mailto:mse...@ont.com]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:23 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

If you are using Vi client and have virtual center running, right click
on VM and go to edit settings and sellect the hard drive. You should be
able to change the hard drive size if you are running ESX 3.5 and VC
2.5. You still have to change the partition size in the VM just like in
a physical server. By adding this drive to another VM you can use
diskpart.exe. You may have to restart the new VM for it to register
correctly.

Original Message:
-
From: Craig Gauss gau...@rhahealthcare.org
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:47:32 -0500
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?


I tried that but it didnt seem to want to resize correctly.  Wondering
if maybe VCenter needs to be up to do the resizing or something.  I
would resize it to 40GB.  Next time I looked at the properties it showed
the original size again.
 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital
Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572


 



From: Mike Semon [mailto:mse...@ont.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?



Here is an easy way. I use diskpart.

 

1. Power off the VM.

2. Resize vmdk.

3. Add this vmdk to another machine and use diskpart.

4. Remove this disk from this VM(where you added it as second disk).

5. Power on the source VM and you are done!

 

Mike

 

 



From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org]
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 9:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VMware - Vcenter resize?

 

The group that configured our VMware infrastructure created vcenter as a
virtual machine.  It was only sized at 20GB.  We are continually running
out of space.  Anyone know what would be the easiest way to resize the
VM?  

 

I have resized VMs in the past with no issues but am not sure how to do
the VCenter server.

 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital
Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572

 

 

 


 

 


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  ~


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~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
  ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
  ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
  ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

[mse...@ont.com]

So when you type in the amount under new size and click ok at the bottom it
does not save this configuration? What version of ESX and VC are you
running?

Original Message:
-
From: Craig Gauss gau...@rhahealthcare.org
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:27:40 -0500
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?


When I go back in and edit the settings of the VM again it shows the
original 20GB size. 


Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572



-Original Message-
From: mse...@ont.com [mailto:mse...@ont.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:23 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

If you are using Vi client and have virtual center running, right click
on VM and go to edit settings and sellect the hard drive. You should be
able to change the hard drive size if you are running ESX 3.5 and VC
2.5. You still have to change the partition size in the VM just like in
a physical server. By adding this drive to another VM you can use
diskpart.exe. You may have to restart the new VM for it to register
correctly.

Original Message:
-
From: Craig Gauss gau...@rhahealthcare.org
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:47:32 -0500
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?


I tried that but it didnt seem to want to resize correctly.  Wondering
if maybe VCenter needs to be up to do the resizing or something.  I
would resize it to 40GB.  Next time I looked at the properties it showed
the original size again.
 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital
Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572


 



From: Mike Semon [mailto:mse...@ont.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?



Here is an easy way. I use diskpart.

 

1. Power off the VM.

2. Resize vmdk.

3. Add this vmdk to another machine and use diskpart.

4. Remove this disk from this VM(where you added it as second disk).

5. Power on the source VM and you are done!

 

Mike

 

 



From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] 
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 9:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VMware - Vcenter resize?

 

The group that configured our VMware infrastructure created vcenter as a
virtual machine.  It was only sized at 20GB.  We are continually running
out of space.  Anyone know what would be the easiest way to resize the
VM?  

 

I have resized VMs in the past with no issues but am not sure how to do
the VCenter server.

 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572

 

 

 


 

 


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~   ~


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RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

[Craig Gauss]

Guest still only shows 20GB 


Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572



-Original Message-
From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@ibcschools.edu] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:29 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

What does the guest say though? 
Sometimes I've made changes in the viclient and have to restart it
before they show up correctly.

-Original Message-
From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:28 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

When I go back in and edit the settings of the VM again it shows the
original 20GB size. 


Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital
Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572



-Original Message-
From: mse...@ont.com [mailto:mse...@ont.com]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:23 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

If you are using Vi client and have virtual center running, right click
on VM and go to edit settings and sellect the hard drive. You should be
able to change the hard drive size if you are running ESX 3.5 and VC
2.5. You still have to change the partition size in the VM just like in
a physical server. By adding this drive to another VM you can use
diskpart.exe. You may have to restart the new VM for it to register
correctly.

Original Message:
-
From: Craig Gauss gau...@rhahealthcare.org
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:47:32 -0500
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?


I tried that but it didnt seem to want to resize correctly.  Wondering
if maybe VCenter needs to be up to do the resizing or something.  I
would resize it to 40GB.  Next time I looked at the properties it showed
the original size again.
 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital
Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572


 



From: Mike Semon [mailto:mse...@ont.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?



Here is an easy way. I use diskpart.

 

1. Power off the VM.

2. Resize vmdk.

3. Add this vmdk to another machine and use diskpart.

4. Remove this disk from this VM(where you added it as second disk).

5. Power on the source VM and you are done!

 

Mike

 

 



From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org]
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 9:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VMware - Vcenter resize?

 

The group that configured our VMware infrastructure created vcenter as a
virtual machine.  It was only sized at 20GB.  We are continually running
out of space.  Anyone know what would be the easiest way to resize the
VM?  

 

I have resized VMs in the past with no issues but am not sure how to do
the VCenter server.

 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital
Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572

 

 

 


 

 


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
  ~


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application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting



~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
  ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
  ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
  ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Certificate migration

[Jim Dandy]

If I get a certificate and my server crashes, can a rebuild a machine
with the same name and put the same certificate back on it or is there
something special about that certificate that makes it so it will only
work on that one installation?  Thanks for your help.

Curt Finley

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: IE 8 today

[David Lum]

If you ask me not having IE7 certified for those two enterprise application 
doesn't speak highly of the company who created those enterprise apps. IE7 
isn't exactly new nor in minority use.

Unless of course it's something that runs primarily on Mac's or similar.
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764
From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:36 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IE 8 today

I became a fan and user of Firefox years ago when it was the only browser to 
offer tabbed browsing.  Just because IE now offers that, I still see no reason 
to switch back.  Ironically, at my work, we still haven't implemented IE7 
because of two enterprise applications that have not been certified on IE7 by 
the software companies for use with their web based interfaces.
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Michael Ross 
mailto:mr...@itwif.com>> wrote:
All good points.. really.
However.. I disagree  that it IS more secure..
For example.. a recent issue...
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2934


-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IE 8 today
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Michael Ross 
mailto:mr...@itwif.com>> wrote:
> I dunno why.. but I disagree with statement touting that firefox is the
top
> dog to work with or use..
 Okay, I'll bite... :)  It's been a long week; this will be refreshing...
:)

 I like Firefox better.  It's faster and more flexible.  Firefox
tends to work they way I want.  I can make it do what I want more
easily.  There are more useful extensions for Firefox

 Firefox works on all my computers, not just XP and Vista.  Yes, we
still have Win 2000 in production at work.  I've got Linux at home and
on my laptop.  Firefox runs everywhere..

 Extensions to MSIE, like IE7Pro, let IE catch up to Firefox in many
ways, but Firefox has been doing more of what I want "out of the box"
for years and years, when MSFT was still leaving us languishing with
MSIE 6.  Why should I go through the pain and effort of switching back
now?

 The development community responds better and faster than Microsoft.
 See above.

 In practice, I think Firefox is more secure than MSIE.  Web
developers wanting to target MSIE are encouraged to use ActiveX, and
downloading native machine code over the Internet into a browser is
horrible idea and always was.  NoScript blocks even JavaScript-based
attacks.  Permit Cookies lets me manage cookie permission easily.

 The fact that some sites *still* don't work right with anything but
MSIE 6, and the fact that Microsoft *still( makes it unreasonably hard
to run multiple versions of their browser, means that I can't even
really try seriously newer releases.  With Firefox, I can simply
install to a different directory.  It takes all of five seconds.

>  I have zero issues using IE7 ...
> Zero.. EXCEPT ...

 "That word you keep using.  I do not think it means what you think
it means."  :)
> as far at the memory issue.. e I just reboot and in 1.5
> minutes ...

 Another thing I like about Firefox is that, since it hasn't been
shoved into the OS core in an attempt to stifle competition (see
Findings of Fact, US v. MSFT, 5 Nov 1999), I can easily shutdown,
kill, and/or upgrade the browser without having to reboot my *entire
computer*.
-- Ben

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~



~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~



--
Sherry Abercrombie

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke





~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Re: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

[James Rankin]

Or regedit from the command line needs /i with /s (and the location of the
.reg file)

2009/3/23 Paul Everett 

> Thanks Ben.
> #1 worked great!
> #4 the reg entry was made.  An XP Pro disk opens just showing the contents
> of the disk.  Is there a switch for this script to ignore (or don't
> overwrite) if the entry is already there so my login script doesn't stop and
> wait for user input?
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:45 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Paul Everett
>  wrote:
> > 1.  Is there a way (script or GP) to take "domain users" out of the
> > local admin group?
>
>  In addition to other suggestions, you could always do:
>
>NET LOCALGROUP Administrators "%YourDomain%\Domain Users" /DELETE
>
> Put that in your logon script.  If "Domain Users" has local admin
> rights, then it will succeed, and remove "Domain Users" for future
> logons.  If it's already been done, it will fail harmlessly.
>
> > 4.  How do I do the INI redirection trick?
>
>  It works by redirecting AUTORUN.INF to a non-existent registry
> location.  That will make Windows completely ignore the AUTORUN.INF
> file on any disk.  It involves a single registry key and value:
>
> Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
> Key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf
> Default value:"@SYS:DoesNotExist"
>
>  If you put the following in a .REG file, you can import it using REGEDIT:
>
> REGEDIT4
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
> @="@SYS:DoesNotExist"
>
>  Or, you can use the REG command (all on one line):
>
> REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf" /ve /t REG_SZ /d
> "@SYS:DoesNotExist"
>
> -- Ben
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
>

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Re: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

[James Rankin]

I think the force switch for reg.exe is /f

2009/3/23 Paul Everett 

> Thanks Ben.
> #1 worked great!
> #4 the reg entry was made.  An XP Pro disk opens just showing the contents
> of the disk.  Is there a switch for this script to ignore (or don't
> overwrite) if the entry is already there so my login script doesn't stop and
> wait for user input?
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:45 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Paul Everett
>  wrote:
> > 1.  Is there a way (script or GP) to take "domain users" out of the
> > local admin group?
>
>  In addition to other suggestions, you could always do:
>
>NET LOCALGROUP Administrators "%YourDomain%\Domain Users" /DELETE
>
> Put that in your logon script.  If "Domain Users" has local admin
> rights, then it will succeed, and remove "Domain Users" for future
> logons.  If it's already been done, it will fail harmlessly.
>
> > 4.  How do I do the INI redirection trick?
>
>  It works by redirecting AUTORUN.INF to a non-existent registry
> location.  That will make Windows completely ignore the AUTORUN.INF
> file on any disk.  It involves a single registry key and value:
>
> Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
> Key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf
> Default value:"@SYS:DoesNotExist"
>
>  If you put the following in a .REG file, you can import it using REGEDIT:
>
> REGEDIT4
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
> @="@SYS:DoesNotExist"
>
>  Or, you can use the REG command (all on one line):
>
> REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf" /ve /t REG_SZ /d
> "@SYS:DoesNotExist"
>
> -- Ben
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
>

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

[Damien Solodow]

What does the guest say though? 
Sometimes I've made changes in the viclient and have to restart it
before they show up correctly.

-Original Message-
From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:28 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

When I go back in and edit the settings of the VM again it shows the
original 20GB size. 


Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572



-Original Message-
From: mse...@ont.com [mailto:mse...@ont.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:23 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

If you are using Vi client and have virtual center running, right click
on VM and go to edit settings and sellect the hard drive. You should be
able to change the hard drive size if you are running ESX 3.5 and VC
2.5. You still have to change the partition size in the VM just like in
a physical server. By adding this drive to another VM you can use
diskpart.exe. You may have to restart the new VM for it to register
correctly.

Original Message:
-
From: Craig Gauss gau...@rhahealthcare.org
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:47:32 -0500
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?


I tried that but it didnt seem to want to resize correctly.  Wondering
if maybe VCenter needs to be up to do the resizing or something.  I
would resize it to 40GB.  Next time I looked at the properties it showed
the original size again.
 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital
Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572


 



From: Mike Semon [mailto:mse...@ont.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?



Here is an easy way. I use diskpart.

 

1. Power off the VM.

2. Resize vmdk.

3. Add this vmdk to another machine and use diskpart.

4. Remove this disk from this VM(where you added it as second disk).

5. Power on the source VM and you are done!

 

Mike

 

 



From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] 
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 9:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VMware - Vcenter resize?

 

The group that configured our VMware infrastructure created vcenter as a
virtual machine.  It was only sized at 20GB.  We are continually running
out of space.  Anyone know what would be the easiest way to resize the
VM?  

 

I have resized VMs in the past with no issues but am not sure how to do
the VCenter server.

 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572

 

 

 


 

 


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~   ~


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~   ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

[Craig Gauss]

When I go back in and edit the settings of the VM again it shows the
original 20GB size. 


Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572



-Original Message-
From: mse...@ont.com [mailto:mse...@ont.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:23 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

If you are using Vi client and have virtual center running, right click
on VM and go to edit settings and sellect the hard drive. You should be
able to change the hard drive size if you are running ESX 3.5 and VC
2.5. You still have to change the partition size in the VM just like in
a physical server. By adding this drive to another VM you can use
diskpart.exe. You may have to restart the new VM for it to register
correctly.

Original Message:
-
From: Craig Gauss gau...@rhahealthcare.org
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:47:32 -0500
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?


I tried that but it didnt seem to want to resize correctly.  Wondering
if maybe VCenter needs to be up to do the resizing or something.  I
would resize it to 40GB.  Next time I looked at the properties it showed
the original size again.
 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital
Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572


 



From: Mike Semon [mailto:mse...@ont.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?



Here is an easy way. I use diskpart.

 

1. Power off the VM.

2. Resize vmdk.

3. Add this vmdk to another machine and use diskpart.

4. Remove this disk from this VM(where you added it as second disk).

5. Power on the source VM and you are done!

 

Mike

 

 



From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] 
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 9:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VMware - Vcenter resize?

 

The group that configured our VMware infrastructure created vcenter as a
virtual machine.  It was only sized at 20GB.  We are continually running
out of space.  Anyone know what would be the easiest way to resize the
VM?  

 

I have resized VMs in the past with no issues but am not sure how to do
the VCenter server.

 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572

 

 

 


 

 


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~


myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft(r) Windows(r) and Linux web and
application
hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting



~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Re: RichCopy

[Rob Bonfiglio]

Look under Action - Copy Options, and then select File attributes, Error
Handling from the pane on the left.  It looks like you can select security
info to be copied from there.

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Kevin Lundy  wrote:

> Pretty neat tool.  Except it doesn't appear to preserve NTFS
> permissions, unless we have missed a switch or something??
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Rob Bonfiglio 
> wrote:
> > We just got an e-mail from our Microsoft Rep which linked us to this
> > utility.  Apparently it's used a lot w/in Microsoft.  The article gives
> some
> > background to RichCopy.  It is a multi-threaded GUI file copying
> utility.  I
> > thought some of you all might find it useful, if you haven't seen it
> > already.
> >
> >
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx?pr=blog
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
>

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

[mse...@ont.com]

If you are using Vi client and have virtual center running, right click on
VM and go to edit settings and sellect the hard drive. You should be able
to change the hard drive size if you are running ESX 3.5 and VC 2.5. You
still have to change the partition size in the VM just like in a physical
server. By adding this drive to another VM you can use diskpart.exe. You
may have to restart the new VM for it to register correctly.

Original Message:
-
From: Craig Gauss gau...@rhahealthcare.org
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:47:32 -0500
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?


I tried that but it didnt seem to want to resize correctly.  Wondering
if maybe VCenter needs to be up to do the resizing or something.  I
would resize it to 40GB.  Next time I looked at the properties it showed
the original size again.
 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572


 



From: Mike Semon [mailto:mse...@ont.com] 
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?



Here is an easy way. I use diskpart.

 

1. Power off the VM.

2. Resize vmdk.

3. Add this vmdk to another machine and use diskpart.

4. Remove this disk from this VM(where you added it as second disk).

5. Power on the source VM and you are done!

 

Mike

 

 



From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] 
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 9:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VMware - Vcenter resize?

 

The group that configured our VMware infrastructure created vcenter as a
virtual machine.  It was only sized at 20GB.  We are continually running
out of space.  Anyone know what would be the easiest way to resize the
VM?  

 

I have resized VMs in the past with no issues but am not sure how to do
the VCenter server.

 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572

 

 

 


 

 


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~


myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft® Windows® and Linux web and application
hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting



~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

[Paul Everett]

Thanks Ben.
#1 worked great!
#4 the reg entry was made.  An XP Pro disk opens just showing the contents of 
the disk.  Is there a switch for this script to ignore (or don't overwrite) if 
the entry is already there so my login script doesn't stop and wait for user 
input?


-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:45 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Paul Everett
 wrote:
> 1.      Is there a way (script or GP) to take "domain users" out of the
> local admin group?

  In addition to other suggestions, you could always do:

NET LOCALGROUP Administrators "%YourDomain%\Domain Users" /DELETE

Put that in your logon script.  If "Domain Users" has local admin
rights, then it will succeed, and remove "Domain Users" for future
logons.  If it's already been done, it will fail harmlessly.

> 4.      How do I do the INI redirection trick?

  It works by redirecting AUTORUN.INF to a non-existent registry
location.  That will make Windows completely ignore the AUTORUN.INF
file on any disk.  It involves a single registry key and value:

Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf
Default value:"@SYS:DoesNotExist"

  If you put the following in a .REG file, you can import it using REGEDIT:

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
@="@SYS:DoesNotExist"

  Or, you can use the REG command (all on one line):

REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf" /ve /t REG_SZ /d
"@SYS:DoesNotExist"

-- Ben

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

[Damien Solodow]

Sounds right. When you log into the vServer machine, and look at Disk
Management, does it show the new size?

 

From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

 

It completed almost instantly

 

Reconfigure Virtual Machine - VCenter - Completed - Root - Time - Start
Time and Complete Time

 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572

 

 



From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@ibcschools.edu] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 9:57 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

Are you logged into vcenter or the esx host directly? 

When you tell it to up the size of the drive and click ok, does it show
the task running? What do the task results say?

 

From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:54 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

 

VI Client

 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572

 

 



From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@ibcschools.edu] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 9:51 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

Nope, you don't need vCenter to do the resize. 

Are you trying to do it from the VI Client or from the service console
on the esx host?

 

From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:48 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

 

I tried that but it didnt seem to want to resize correctly.  Wondering
if maybe VCenter needs to be up to do the resizing or something.  I
would resize it to 40GB.  Next time I looked at the properties it showed
the original size again.

 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572

 

 



From: Mike Semon [mailto:mse...@ont.com] 
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

Here is an easy way. I use diskpart.

 

1. Power off the VM.

2. Resize vmdk.

3. Add this vmdk to another machine and use diskpart.

4. Remove this disk from this VM(where you added it as second disk).

5. Power on the source VM and you are done!

 

Mike

 

 



From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] 
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 9:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VMware - Vcenter resize?

 

The group that configured our VMware infrastructure created vcenter as a
virtual machine.  It was only sized at 20GB.  We are continually running
out of space.  Anyone know what would be the easiest way to resize the
VM?  

 

I have resized VMs in the past with no issues but am not sure how to do
the VCenter server.

 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

[Craig Gauss]

It completed almost instantly
 
Reconfigure Virtual Machine - VCenter - Completed - Root - Time - Start
Time and Complete Time
 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572


 



From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@ibcschools.edu] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 9:57 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?



Are you logged into vcenter or the esx host directly? 

When you tell it to up the size of the drive and click ok, does it show
the task running? What do the task results say?

 

From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:54 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

 

VI Client

 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572

 

 



From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@ibcschools.edu] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 9:51 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

Nope, you don't need vCenter to do the resize. 

Are you trying to do it from the VI Client or from the service console
on the esx host?

 

From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:48 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

 

I tried that but it didnt seem to want to resize correctly.  Wondering
if maybe VCenter needs to be up to do the resizing or something.  I
would resize it to 40GB.  Next time I looked at the properties it showed
the original size again.

 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572

 

 



From: Mike Semon [mailto:mse...@ont.com] 
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

Here is an easy way. I use diskpart.

 

1. Power off the VM.

2. Resize vmdk.

3. Add this vmdk to another machine and use diskpart.

4. Remove this disk from this VM(where you added it as second disk).

5. Power on the source VM and you are done!

 

Mike

 

 



From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] 
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 9:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VMware - Vcenter resize?

 

The group that configured our VMware infrastructure created vcenter as a
virtual machine.  It was only sized at 20GB.  We are continually running
out of space.  Anyone know what would be the easiest way to resize the
VM?  

 

I have resized VMs in the past with no issues but am not sure how to do
the VCenter server.

 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

[Damien Solodow]

Are you logged into vcenter or the esx host directly? 

When you tell it to up the size of the drive and click ok, does it show
the task running? What do the task results say?

 

From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:54 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

 

VI Client

 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572

 

 



From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@ibcschools.edu] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 9:51 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

Nope, you don't need vCenter to do the resize. 

Are you trying to do it from the VI Client or from the service console
on the esx host?

 

From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:48 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

 

I tried that but it didnt seem to want to resize correctly.  Wondering
if maybe VCenter needs to be up to do the resizing or something.  I
would resize it to 40GB.  Next time I looked at the properties it showed
the original size again.

 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572

 

 



From: Mike Semon [mailto:mse...@ont.com] 
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

Here is an easy way. I use diskpart.

 

1. Power off the VM.

2. Resize vmdk.

3. Add this vmdk to another machine and use diskpart.

4. Remove this disk from this VM(where you added it as second disk).

5. Power on the source VM and you are done!

 

Mike

 

 



From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] 
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 9:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VMware - Vcenter resize?

 

The group that configured our VMware infrastructure created vcenter as a
virtual machine.  It was only sized at 20GB.  We are continually running
out of space.  Anyone know what would be the easiest way to resize the
VM?  

 

I have resized VMs in the past with no issues but am not sure how to do
the VCenter server.

 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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RE: Reporting/stats via global map

[David Lum]

PING (or maybe I missed responses).

Dave

From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 1:21 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Reporting/stats via global map

I have yet another directive to research...
-

I am looking for some map software to provide us with some visuals on our 
international work.  Some capabilities I would be looking for include:

* Color code countries to represent levels of approval to work

* Color code cities based on status

* (possibly) the ability to drill down into data from the map (students 
testing numbers, enrollment, etc.)
-

Apparently Map Point is pretty damn close, but we need true global capability...
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764







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RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

[Craig Gauss]

VI Client
 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572


 



From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@ibcschools.edu] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 9:51 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?



Nope, you don't need vCenter to do the resize. 

Are you trying to do it from the VI Client or from the service console
on the esx host?

 

From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:48 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

 

I tried that but it didnt seem to want to resize correctly.  Wondering
if maybe VCenter needs to be up to do the resizing or something.  I
would resize it to 40GB.  Next time I looked at the properties it showed
the original size again.

 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572

 

 



From: Mike Semon [mailto:mse...@ont.com] 
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

Here is an easy way. I use diskpart.

 

1. Power off the VM.

2. Resize vmdk.

3. Add this vmdk to another machine and use diskpart.

4. Remove this disk from this VM(where you added it as second disk).

5. Power on the source VM and you are done!

 

Mike

 

 



From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] 
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 9:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VMware - Vcenter resize?

 

The group that configured our VMware infrastructure created vcenter as a
virtual machine.  It was only sized at 20GB.  We are continually running
out of space.  Anyone know what would be the easiest way to resize the
VM?  

 

I have resized VMs in the past with no issues but am not sure how to do
the VCenter server.

 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

[Damien Solodow]

Nope, you don't need vCenter to do the resize. 

Are you trying to do it from the VI Client or from the service console
on the esx host?

 

From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:48 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

 

I tried that but it didnt seem to want to resize correctly.  Wondering
if maybe VCenter needs to be up to do the resizing or something.  I
would resize it to 40GB.  Next time I looked at the properties it showed
the original size again.

 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572

 

 



From: Mike Semon [mailto:mse...@ont.com] 
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

Here is an easy way. I use diskpart.

 

1. Power off the VM.

2. Resize vmdk.

3. Add this vmdk to another machine and use diskpart.

4. Remove this disk from this VM(where you added it as second disk).

5. Power on the source VM and you are done!

 

Mike

 

 



From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] 
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 9:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VMware - Vcenter resize?

 

The group that configured our VMware infrastructure created vcenter as a
virtual machine.  It was only sized at 20GB.  We are continually running
out of space.  Anyone know what would be the easiest way to resize the
VM?  

 

I have resized VMs in the past with no issues but am not sure how to do
the VCenter server.

 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: RichCopy

[John Hornbuckle]

Can it preserve ACLs? I can't tell from the screen shot, but maybe I'm missing 
it.





John Hornbuckle
MIS Department
Taylor County School District
318 North Clark Street
Perry, FL 32347

www.taylor.k12.fl.us



From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:42 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: RichCopy

highlighted in the recent TechNet magazine too

Erik Goldoff

IT  Consultant

Systems, Networks, & Security



From: Rob Bonfiglio [mailto:robbonfig...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 3:52 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RichCopy
We just got an e-mail from our Microsoft Rep which linked us to this utility.  
Apparently it's used a lot w/in Microsoft.  The article gives some background 
to RichCopy.  It is a multi-threaded GUI file copying utility.  I thought some 
of you all might find it useful, if you haven't seen it already.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx?pr=blog










~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

[Craig Gauss]

I tried that but it didnt seem to want to resize correctly.  Wondering
if maybe VCenter needs to be up to do the resizing or something.  I
would resize it to 40GB.  Next time I looked at the properties it showed
the original size again.
 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572


 



From: Mike Semon [mailto:mse...@ont.com] 
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?



Here is an easy way. I use diskpart.

 

1. Power off the VM.

2. Resize vmdk.

3. Add this vmdk to another machine and use diskpart.

4. Remove this disk from this VM(where you added it as second disk).

5. Power on the source VM and you are done!

 

Mike

 

 



From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] 
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 9:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VMware - Vcenter resize?

 

The group that configured our VMware infrastructure created vcenter as a
virtual machine.  It was only sized at 20GB.  We are continually running
out of space.  Anyone know what would be the easiest way to resize the
VM?  

 

I have resized VMs in the past with no issues but am not sure how to do
the VCenter server.

 

Craig Gauss,  Technical Supervisor/Security Officer
Riverview Hospital Association
Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572

 

 

 


 

 


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Re: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

[Ben Scott]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Paul Everett
 wrote:
> 1.      Is there a way (script or GP) to take "domain users" out of the
> local admin group?

  In addition to other suggestions, you could always do:

NET LOCALGROUP Administrators "%YourDomain%\Domain Users" /DELETE

Put that in your logon script.  If "Domain Users" has local admin
rights, then it will succeed, and remove "Domain Users" for future
logons.  If it's already been done, it will fail harmlessly.

> 4.      How do I do the INI redirection trick?

  It works by redirecting AUTORUN.INF to a non-existent registry
location.  That will make Windows completely ignore the AUTORUN.INF
file on any disk.  It involves a single registry key and value:

Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf
Default value:"@SYS:DoesNotExist"

  If you put the following in a .REG file, you can import it using REGEDIT:

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
@="@SYS:DoesNotExist"

  Or, you can use the REG command (all on one line):

REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf" /ve /t REG_SZ /d
"@SYS:DoesNotExist"

-- Ben

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~   ~

RE: RichCopy

[Erik Goldoff]

highlighted in the recent TechNet magazine too
 

Erik Goldoff


IT  Consultant

Systems, Networks, & Security 

 

  _  

From: Rob Bonfiglio [mailto:robbonfig...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 3:52 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RichCopy


We just got an e-mail from our Microsoft Rep which linked us to this
utility.  Apparently it's used a lot w/in Microsoft.  The article gives some
background to RichCopy.  It is a multi-threaded GUI file copying utility.  I
thought some of you all might find it useful, if you haven't seen it
already.
 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx?pr
=blog

 


 


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~